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, including Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as New York, New Jersey, and parts of Pennsylvania.
We occupy 9,000 square feet of Easthampton´s Eastworks Building. This building is a great metaphor for the work we do. Formerly Stanley Home Products, Eastworks was an industrial anchor for the town of Easthampton. After Stanley moved its operations further afield, the old factory became a mixed-use studio building housing painters, inventors, sculptors, woodworkers, glass artists, printmakers, weavers, illustrators, bicycle and skate manufacturing, and a fine restaurant.
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. Nearly a decade later Greg Bossie joined Stone Soup from a background in architecture and design in California to help continue growth in new bold directions.
Stone Soup Concrete is an environmentally conscious company. Our practices include purchasing nearly all of our materials locally, using recycled glass in our concrete, and reusing and repurposing everyday materials.
