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The intricately carved stone pineapple, which is situated between the two bothies, forms an elaborate cupola atop an octagonal pavilion, with sash windows topped with Gothic ogee arches on seven sides and a door, topped with an ogee transom, on the eighth. The door, on the north side, exits onto the upper level of the garden.
Christopher O'Hare is an American artist, sculptor, inventor, and landscape architect based in South Florida. [1] He is the founder of both Pineapple Grove Designs—a producer of ornamental art for architecture [2] [3] —and Reef Cells—a company that designs and deploys artificial, eco-friendly reef structures (some of which memorialize deceased people).
The Asian tradition of making garden ornaments, often functioning in association with Feng Shui principles, has a nearly timeless history. Chinese gardens with Chinese scholar's rocks , Korean stone art , and Japanese gardens with Suiseki and Zen rock gardens have a symbolic meaning and natural ornamental qualities.
Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.
The formalised flower motif is often carved in stone or wood to create decorative ornaments for architecture and furniture, and in metalworking, jewelry design and the applied arts to form a decorative border or at the intersection of two materials. Rosette decorations have been used for formal military awards.
This Halloween 2024, use these printable pumpkin stencils and free, easy carving patterns for the scariest, silliest, most unique, and cutest jack-o’-lanterns.
In architecture, it is a small decorative device, employed to emphasize the apex of a dome, spire, tower, roof, or gable or any of various distinctive ornaments at the top, end, or corner of a building or structure. [3] A finial is typically carved in stone. Where there are several such elements they may be called pinnacles. The very top of a ...
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