Using texts by Guy de Maupassant and Anthony Powell this beautiful and musical inscription has been designed, hand-carved, painted and gilded (with aluminium leaf and gold) by Annet Stirling into a block of Kirkby Grey Slate. This is an original and unique work of art by one of the world’s most creative Letterwork Sculptors and will look magnificent both inside and out.
Kirkby Stone is an even blue grey colour throughout and architects have often used it in landmark buildings for its natural beauty, durability and adaptability. The Kirkby quarry is located on Kirkby Moor, just above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria, UK. Kirkby Stone is sedimentary in nature and was formed in the Silurian period, some 300-350 million years ago.
Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in the English Language. The quote around the edges, “A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra” is from the 19th-century French author Guy de Maupassant.