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A faux sandstone wall and stacked rock pillar with a stone slab bridging them, sculpted by Athos for a garden show
Athos Rockworks

You dream it,
we create it!

Hand sculpted faux rock to fit any space...

Faux rock heart planter with succulents
A little heart
Faux boulder in the snow
A boulder you carry
Tall faux rock spire among evergreens at a home show
A spire for the garden
Faux rock arch spanning a backyard pool
An arch over the pool
Towering faux rock formation in the middle of a home show hall
A formation you walk around
2″20′

From two inches to twenty feet. The same artisans sculpt every one, so the only limit on size is your imagination.

Start with the wildest version. A waterfall pouring out of a hillside that was never there. A cave you walk into for movie night. A boulder that bubbles by the front door. A rock arch over the pool.

Our artisans sculpt every piece by hand and color it until it looks like it was always there. Faux rock is light and takes almost any shape, from two inches to twenty feet, so it goes where real stone can't: into the basement, around the pump, over the outlet, up the fireplace wall.

Light by design

Rock you can ship.
Rock you can set yourself.

Real rock is limited by its weight. Ours isn't. It can be shipped to your door, handled easily and set in place by anyone who likes to build. Or we install it for you.

How it happens

From a dream
to stone.

A discovery call or visit

On the phone or in your space: what it means to you, where it goes, how it should look and feel.

A design consultation

Mock-ups or renderings, so you see it and love it before anything is sculpted.

We create whatever your heart desires

Our artisans sculpt it by hand and color it until it looks like it was always there.

See how it works →
Walk through a cave we built

From foam block
to finished cave.

Watch our crew sculpt and shape it in the shop, then walk through the finished piece: two waterfalls, a viewing window and an aquarium insert. It feels like Disney, in your own backyard. Imagine it next to your pool.

We love real rock too.

Natural stone is beautiful, and it has its limits: its size, its weight, the shape it came out of the ground in. Faux rock has very few. If your heart is set on real stone, our sister company builds with it.

Natural rock at LCM Outdoor Living →

Where could rock go?

Real rock is limited by its weight and its engineering. Faux rock hardly is. A few places to start dreaming:

Ceilings and roofsLook up into a cave, or walk under a roof of stone.SidingA wall of the house dressed as a canyon face.A storage container, turned into a rockThe steel box out back becomes a boulder that belongs to the land.Cliffs, grottos and cavesA rock face climbing up beside the pool or the drive.Wine cellarsBottles resting in a room that feels dug from a hillside.Taxidermy rockA ledge of stone for the mount, sculpted to the animal.Props and the weird stuffHaunts, film sets, stages, displays. The stranger the better.PlantersFrom a two-inch heart to a planter big enough for a garden.

Let your imagination wander

WaterfallsKits and custom fallsWaterfall kitsSolspire and Echo ColumnsCustom fountainsBubbling boulders, sculpted to fitRock formationsBig stone, sculpted to the siteCliffs, grottos and cavesRock faces, grottos and climbing wallsIndoor water featuresWater inside the houseFire pitsRock around the fireFireplacesRock surroundsOutdoor kitchensRock on grills and islandsPlantersTwo inches to twenty feetCustom signsTurn any sign into a water featureBuild It YourselfInstall it yourself, or we canIf You Can Dream ItIf you can dream itBasement wing wallsWalkout walls in stoneWine cellarsRock walls and archesMan cavesA room that feels dugGun range entrywaysWalk in through rockThe bat caveA Halloween entrance we builtTaxidermyRock for taxidermy mountsOutlet coversA rock over the outletProps for rentFilm, stage and eventsShopKits, boulders, plantersHow it worksPicture it, we create itStart a projectTell us what you picture

You may have walked through our work already: Athos built the entry garden at the 2023 and 2024 Colorado Garden & Home Shows.

Dreams we have already sculpted

Where it started

It started with Rick.

Athos began with Landon's mentor, Rick Purcell. For more than fifty years Rick built rock all over the world, in zoos and places like them, out of GFRC panels that weighed a tremendous amount and fought you every step of the way.

Rick wanted a lighter way to build the same mountains. He taught Landon the craft, and that search became Athos. Then came a trip to Garden of the Gods. Landon saw an amazing formation there, mimicked it, and made water run through it.

Tall faux sandstone formation with ivy, daffodils and tulips at its base, sculpted by Landon after Garden of the Gods
The formation Landon sculpted after Garden of the Gods.
See where that led →
Every rock has a story

Landon's eye
for hearts.

Faux rock heart planter with succulents on a patio table

Landon has an eye for heart shapes. When he finds one, he saves it for a customer.

Every rock we make has a story, from the heart rocks to the Solspire.

See the heart planters →

Tell us what you picture.

Bring a sketch, a photo or just the idea. Our artisans sculpt it, color it and can install it.

Start a project