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“There was clearly a link between beauty and well-being, but the developers and planners had other ideas.”
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“____________________________ Excerpted from Monumental: A Stonemason’s Tale by Simon Warrack.”
“Damp houses with moldy plaster and broken windows lined streets between terrifying schools with grimy kids gazing forlornly through lethal wire fencing around the playgrounds.”
“I looked at all this from the top deck and instinctively knew that something was wrong.”
“Clutching this in my grubby hand, I would lean forward and enjoy one of the best views in London.”
“In my early teens I was taught to carve stone and wood by an eccentric genius called Don Potter.”
“After a few hours of working my way down the block, it cracked in half.”
“This is how masons learn.”
“I was to find out that it is an intergovernmental organization that is part of the UN family and which promotes the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage all over the world.”
“art conservation Craftsmanship cultural preservation Monumental: A Stonemason’s Tale restoration Simon Warrack stonemasonry W.W.”
“It swung south down the hill past Abbey Road to cross the Kilburn High Road and on through Notting Hill Gate.”
“He told me he had been to a restoration school right here in Venice—he pointed out across the basin of San Marco towards one of the islands in the lagoon beyond San Giorgio Maggiore called San Servolo.”
“We had to continue to work each side flat and square so that we could apply a template and start to carve a baluster which would have made up part of a balcony or balustrade.”
“He taught us that to make a good sculpture we just had to remove everything that was not required.”
“If you can get trained as a mason, you will have a foot in both camps, and that will be a unique position.”
““You studied Renaissance history?” “I did.” “So, what do you think defined the Renaissance?”
“Miraculously, I was accepted to start training as a stonemason.”
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“I was not to know then but this passion for caring for beauty, and what was later to be defined as heritage, was to carry me to the ends of the world, far beyond the polar limits of Chelsea and Camden Town.”
“I left university with a mediocre degree and immediately headed back to Venice in the romantic belief that if I presented myself and showed willing, they would somehow let me work on the art.”
“Why would anyone want to destroy lovely old houses, the same houses that made Kensington so desirable, and replace them with buildings that resembled a pile of washing machines 30 floors high?”
“There are more blocks in the store.” He was right—four decades later, I am still going on about it.”
“How they have created art and order from geology.”
“He, the paintings conservator, and me, the stone conservator.”