I designed this gas fire feature. It’s a 4-piece interlocking granite stone fire feature that I cut and shaped from a 4x8’ slab of Maine granite with an HPC Fire insert.

I love the perspective of this photo. It shows the details of my design. For instance we created this small ledge to jut out about 4-1/2” and flattened it so that the client and her friends could set a wine glass on top of it.

This drystone fire pit was designed by me but with plenty of input from the homeowners.  ​We cut and shaped all of this Canadian Basalt on-site and included LED plate lights under the capstones.  

This is Dan Patterson who owns Santa Barbara Forge & Iron sitting inside of the 60” wide sculpted bronze fire feature I commissioned him to create. I worked with HPC Fire in Ohio and designed a custom gas insert to mimic all the details of a camp fire.

This is an excellent overhead shot of this contemporary fire lounge I designed and built with my talented team and 3 other craftsmen from Santa Barbara Forge & Iron, Stellar Jay Designs, and Northwest Outdoor Lighting. As a group of collaborators we created something unique and stunning.

​This drystone fire table consists of a 3'x6' Basalt stone slab (supplied by HDG Building Materials) with an Adz edge-finish and thermal-finished surface.

​This is a drystone bench wall and firepit that I designed and built from Quartzite stone that we hand-cut, shaped and finished on site.  Since this is a standard wood-burning fire pit I built in 3 vents to aid in the air flow.

In 2004, some friends showed me a book about Dan Snow, a drystone artist from the Vermont.  A few years later I saw a photo of a beautiful stone fire bowl he built.  I tried in vain to find a client who wanted me to build one. Finally, after waiting, I decided to build this quick one at one of our rentals in Colorado. I collected the stone from the side of Animas mountain after a mudslide.  It’s not at the level of craftsmanship I prefer and so I will continue searching for a client to build a stunning fire bowl for.