Offices of architects and interior designers often contain dusty alcoves, cupboards, bins and boxes that house samples of stone and tiles from helpful suppliers. When fashions in stone change or office IT persons demand space for ever more gigabyte hard-drives and icloud nebulisers, these samples may be cleverly recycled into crazy paving or rustic Gaudi- inspired barbeques at beach houses on the Mornington Peninsula, corrugated retreats in Kangaroo Valley and their equivalents in other places. This writer has been particularly impressed by the stone decoration, clearly influenced by Munch and Mondrian, on a multi- tiered domed pizza oven and shawarma rotisserie enclosure, at a Mount Hotham ski-lodge, that includes small squares, rectangles and trapezoidal tiles of almost all varieties of stone known to modern geology…but I digress. Read more – by Dr Dripstone