Devin Devine, stone mason and artist based out of Blakeslee Pennsylvania
610-301-4269 devin@devineescapes.com
Hand Carved Stone Sink in Philadelphia
Hand carved from a single piece of Basalt, this stone sink was commissioned by an interior designer and architect husband/wife team in Philadelphia PA. The tiles were originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Basalt, being a volcanic rock, is more a ring of fire sort of material.
I see this stuff all over the place, when I’m working out west. Occasionally I’ve said to myself, it’d be cool if we had some basalt out east…..but then again, it’s cool to have different stones, in different places. It’s fun to import a specialty piece or two, here and there but now that I think about it, I kind of love the fact that I can’t just go to the stone masonry supplier right down the road and load my truck up with columnar basalt, cool as it is.
The tiles are something (and are amazing paired with the sink). Green glass tiles, with jade highlights and subtle blackness in the….some are concave, some are convex, and others are flat. This effects the way that the tiles interact with light and yet the effect is not a busy composition, but rather is relaxing to the eye. This reminds me of a forest. Yes, because of the green color, but the variation, each piece being different, all these little pieces, but it’s like the forest–full of detail, yet calming to the eye. The eye wanders, lazily over the surfaces. Anyway, I just did the sink–merely appreciating the work of others here.
more stone art from this year
- Dry stone egg cairn sculpture with color gradient
- Walnutport sphere
- Birdbaths and benches now available
- more projects like this
Process photo. Basalt, it turns out, is a rather hard stone to work with. Carving this basalt, it seemed the stone is harder than granite. Well, the hardest component of granite is quartz and the the hardest component of basalt is the comparatively much softer feldspar. But does that mean that granite is more hard? I’m not sure! Working the basalt it sure seemed about equally as hard…..but a very different texture, glass-like and not granular like granite.
Beautiful dry stone walls. Are any viewable in public spaces? We are traveling near Philadelphia and are stone wall crazy.
Thank you.
I’m trying to think of a public space dry stone wall of mine, near philly, but they’re all at private residences, and mostly in back yards.
There’s a dry stone sphere of mine (actually with a small amount of well-hidden mortar), at Ivystone Studio in downingtown, about an hour outside of the city.
(there’s another one in the Poconos, private residence but visible from the road) and third one of my sphere is in a public space near DC, at a public park called Brookside Gardens.
An 8′ tall wall (mortared) of mine is roadside, in Gladwynne–but a) that wall is mortared and b) the reason it is mortared is because I built it over 15 years ago, months before I transitioned to dry stone.
Wow! You are insanely talented. I’m humbled by your skill.
You’re very kind to me. Thank you