ABOUT STONE SOUP Concrete is an essential part of our world. Modernity wouldn´t be so without it. At Stone Soup, we are bringing concrete in from the cold. Fusing metal and stone, structural strength with a tactile softness, the concrete we make can cement disparate elements into fully human and humane design At Stone Soup, we welcome the diversity of work that comes our way. We celebrate the collaboration each job implies. Every day is different, every project unique. We are capable of working out the finest details of an object´s design and then producing it to exacting specifications. Every project has possibility, both increasing the range of things we can provide and skilled professionals we can connect with. We view the nature of our work as essentially collaborative and alchemic. Located in the heart of Massachusetts´ Pioneer Valley, Stone Soup Concrete serves all of New England as well as New York, New Jersey, and parts of Pennsylvania. We occupy 10,000 square feet of Northampton´s Arts and Industry Building. This building is a great metaphor for the work we do. Formerly the Pro Brush Factory, the Arts and Industry Building was the first place in the United States to employ the use of injection-molded plastics in the service of the production of hair and tooth brushes. After Pro Brush moved into a more modern facility, the old mill became a mixed-use studio building housing painters, inventors, sculptors, woodworkers, glass artists, printmakers, weavers, illustrators, bicycle and skate manufacturing, and an automotive bio-fuel converter. Stone Soup grew out of the construction company Mike Paulsen & Mike Karmody co-founded to test Mike Paulsen´s patented Task toolbelt system design in the workplace. The toolbelt system was fully modular and allowed crews to work fluidly and creatively with each other. Both Karmody & Paulsen had a keen interest in materials, and were working on structures of considerable complexity; architectural duplication of ruined steeples was one of their specialties. So they were not surprised when concrete took their interest with the force of the history it represents. Thus Stone Soup Concrete was born. Please take some time to visit the following sites: Concrete Design: www.massconcretedesign.com www.countercultureconcrete.com www.concretenetwork.com www.concreteexchange.com www.concretehomes.com Architects and Designers www.theredesign.com www.freedomofspace.com www.tangerinesdesign.com http://austindesign.biz/ http://www.clarkandgreen.com/ http://darlowchrist.com/ http://smithandvansant.com/ www.narchitects.com/ www.ganekbaer.com/ Artists www.elementlabs.com www.linebruntse.com www.lastminutegallery.com www.cynthiaguild.com www.sallycurcio.com www.jonwhitney.net Jon takes our better pictures. www.yestermorrow.org Stone Soup holds concrete workshops at Vermont's Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Check out their other offerings. www.mosaicagallery.com In a vision born of the broken glass resulting from a ripped off radio, Mo has built a radiant vision cemented to unique objects. www.greasecar.com Justin has dug into history to discover Theodore Diesel´s invention anew. Find out how you can pollute less, and pay a lot less for the fuel originally intended for the diesel engine. www.home.ix.netcom.com/~moriaps/index.htm Stone Soup trains at Pine Forest.