QuarryHouse admires and supports craftsmanship. Their Italian partners in Verona, CITCO, often collaborate with the Como-based furnishings company OAK. The oak tree symbolizes the Roman god Jupiter and is a more accessible name to remember than Martinalli Pologna Furniture Company.

Do you ever wonder where QuarryHouse's Man With a Hammer logo originated? When Ed and Missy Westbrook co-founded QuarryHouse thirty years ago, they sought help from their San Anselmo neighbor, Philip Andrews, a freelance graphic designer. He and the Westbrooks found inspiration for the Man With a Hammer in the Works Progress Administration posters of the 1930s and 40s.

The British sculptor Emily Young uses onyx for its translucent qualities. Young, regarded as the UK's greatest living stone sculptor, works with various stones, but her onyx heads, torsos, and discs radiate light. She cuts the stone to show its skin and its imperfections. Growing up between Rome and Wilshire in a family of artists, writers, and politicians, the Colosseum and Stonehenge equally informed her visual vocabulary. One of her classically inspired public works, "Archangel Michael - The Protector," depicts the angel's head in ivory onyx with one side of the face broken away.

While the ICAA Northern California has the Julia Morgan Awards, the ICAA Florida Chapter boasts the Addison Mizner Awards program. Both juried competitions acknowledge excellence in classical and traditional design and provide continued exposure and recognition for practitioners of these disciplines.

QuarryHouse was privileged to collaborate with the late internationally known sculptor Beverly Pepper (1922 – 2020) on the LandArt private commission in Marin County. A Brooklyn native, she entered Pratt Institute at sixteen, attending the Art Students League of New York and Brooklyn College, studying applied arts, fine arts, and art history. A trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, in 1960 inspired her to become a sculptor of monumental public works, site-specific and land art, instead of a painter.

Ed and Missy Westbrook recently attended the StonExpo at TISE 2023 in Las Vegas to accept the 2022 Pinnacle Award. QuarryHouse won in the Residential Interior/Exterior Single Family category for its Pacific Heights Palazzo project from the prestigious Natural Stone Institute.

Winners and peers recently gathered in the celadon and parcel-gilt Beaux-Arts splendor of San Francisco's The Green Room to celebrate The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Northern California Chapter's Julia Morgan Awards.

Now that we have your attention, QuarryHouse was figuratively at the Olympics. They collaborated with Burton Miller of San Francisco's Hornberger + Worstell Architects and Planners on one of the three 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics venues.

Not far from QuarryHouse's corporate offices in downtown San Anselmo lies Imagination Park. In 2013, George Lucas donated the 8,700-square-foot park to commemorate the birthplace of his two masterpieces Star Wars and Indiana Jones, which he worked on from a nearby Victorian called Parkhouse. A fountain with two life-sized bronze figures of Yoda and Indiana Jones created by sculpture Lawrence Noble preside over the landscaped grounds.

Dillon Westbrook is the third Westbrook for us to profile in our Take 10 series. He is a second-generation stonemason who balances the specific functionality of his profession with an education in the nuanced disciplines of philosophy and poetry.

While many of QuarryHouse's projects involve neutral-colored stones of beige, taupe, gray, cream, brown, black, or white, for the skincare and cosmetics store Glossier LA they went pink. The West Hollywood showroom designed by Kendall Latham and built by AP-Build exudes Old Hollywood glamour.

QuarryHouse is a great admirer of renowned British environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and his site-specific installations that weave ice, snow, leaves, branches, or rocks into the shifting landscape. In 2007 Goldsworthy created "Stone River" for the Aspen Institute Doerr Hosier Center.

One of QuarryHouse's neighbors in industrial Richmond is Michael Bondi Metal Design, specializing in architectural and interior wrought metal for private estates and public spaces. Like a modern-day Vulcan, its owner, Michael Bondi, forges shapes from fire and metal.

Nicholas Arcangeli usually works out of QuarryHouse Atelier Verona along with his father, Eugenio. The master carver came to the Richmond facility seven months ago to finish the carved stone fountains he started in Italy for a Renaissance-style mansion in San Francisco.

Derbyshire native Dave Goulder is not only a certified master stone wall craftsman with the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, but he is also a renowned folk singer and songwriter. Folk legends Christy Moore of the iconic Irish folk music band Planxty and the late Bert Jansch of the equally influential British folk-jazz band Pentangle covered Goulder's song, January Man. The lyrics personify the months of the year, tying them to the land and changing seasons.

Cassie Westbrook represents the next generation of Westbrooks at QuarryHouse. Since March is Women's History Month, we wanted to get her unique perspective on growing up and working in the male-dominated stone masonry world. As a project manager, she comes to Construction Management via Theatrical Stage Management and a classical art and architecture background.

Eugenio Arcangeli brings to QuarryHouse not only more than 35 years of experience working with stone but a passion for its beauty. Born in Verona, Italy, from a family deeply rooted in the industry, Eugenio graduated from Milan with a degree in Geometra (a combination of Architecture and Engineering). He has worked with QuarryHouse since 2001 and became the Overseas Project Manager for QuarryHouse Atelier Verona in 2010.

Not only is Ed Westbrook Co-Founder and CEO of Quarry House, but he also acts as a Director of Friends of China Camp. In 2020 he used his construction skills as trail boss for the restoration of Turtle Back Hill Nature Trail.

QuarryHouse just completed the monumental restoration and reimagining of a 1920’s Renaissance-style mansion in San Francisco that includes a fanciful stone grotto. Out of respect for the NDA, the dream team of Tucker & Marks, Skurman Architects, and QuarryHouse can not share the magical grotto images. We can visit other places of enchantment.

QuarryHouse was privileged to collaborate with the late landscape architect Lawrence Halprin on innovative private gardens and prestigious public commissions.