Carriage House Designs

Glass, Clay, Stone & Metal - Residential, Commercial & Architectural

65 Canal Street
Turners Falls, MA 01376

Phone: 413-863-9499
www.signedinstone.com

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Carriage House Designs began when painter and sculptor Jack Nelson was joined in his studio by his wife, Eileen Dowd. This union took place in a historic building, indeed a carriage house, nestled in the Connecticut River Valley in Western Massachusetts. They now reside and work in a new studio, in an old industrial building overlooking a canal that mirrors the Connecticut River ever so briefly. It is in the same river valley where they began.

Products are designed in clay, perhaps for the garden, and in different types of indigenous stones — Vermont marble and slate, soapstone, and alabaster. Each medium is handled differently, either by sculpting, carving, blasting or etching. The combination of mediums and collaboration of handwork and technology is what makes Carriage House Designs unique.

• Carriage House Designs is about a handsome plaque that heralds your home with your name or house number.

• It is about an original drawing of a house transferred to a piece of old school blackboard and given as a wedding gift.

• Carriage House Designs is about a meaningful memorial, in slate or marble, for a pet, a loyal companion, so missed by the family.

Carriage House Designs is about addressing our clients’ needs by looking at their unique experiences and blending experience with need and sensibility. We are happiest when we are creating innovative things, pushing parameters.

We work with architects, designers and home owners. The second slide in the slide show is a photo of a fantasy bathroom that was created for a client who loved vacationing in Tahiti.

Let’s think new thoughts... A growth chart for children in slate up the side of a door. Fossilized animal tracks on stepping stones to create a path. A game of hopskotch etched into the stone path on the way to the swings. A slate blackboard in the bathroom to compose poetry or draw on.

Let’s be in touch — give us a call.

Jack Nelson

In addition to his work with Carriage House Designs, Jack is a well-known painter and sculptor. Some of his work is shown in the slide show as well. You can also check out his website at www.SeeJackWork.com.

He has been a painter, sculptor, and potter for over fifty years. As a painter, Jack works in ink, acrylics and oils. As a sculptor he works with clay and metal, as well as carving stone. He has carved in alabaster, marble, and limestone. As a potter, he is at his most whimsical, working in clay towards the creative expression of functional forms. J

ack grew up in the oldest house in Brookline, Massachusetts, now a museum. His work will forever resonate with this experience and with the interplay of structure and design, function and usage.

He has studied, lived, worked, and exhibited in Massachusetts, California, Rochester, NY, and New York City. Currently, he is living, working, and exhibiting in an eclectic industrial building overlooking a canal in Western Massachusetts.

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