Wood, metal and stone are a most agreeable combination.
I was out on the Nepean River this morning for a meeting with a client. As I was waiting for him to arrive, I took some time to wander around the landscape he had helped to create.
The combination of wood, metal and stone came together beautifully around the landscape perimeter. While it is certainly functional, it also had a rustic beauty to it: it was the meeting of basic, raw, earthy elements. And it works.
The nautical theme seemed to integrate well into the surrounds, even though we were a good hour away from the sea.
Perhaps you, like me, enjoy the atmosphere that lives around old wharves with their ancient steel-ringed turpentine pylons. I know this morning's landscape is not especially ancient, but the effect still works: metal, wood, stone. It's a timeless combination.
When Mark Thomson wrote his book on Australian BBQ's he also tapped into some of the same spirit with the book's title: Meat, Metal and Fire. Some things have always belonged together and always will.
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