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Rock formations

Bring the mountains
home.

Some places stop you in your tracks: red rock towers, arches, ledges shaped by wind and water. Imagine one in your own yard, a cliff up to twenty feet tall, sculpted by hand and colored until it looks like it was always there. Athos built the entry garden at the 2023 and 2024 Colorado Garden & Home Shows.

Sculpting in the shopFaux boulder in snow

Left, a big piece light enough to lift in the shop. Right, a faux boulder out in the snow.

Where it started

A trip to Garden of the Gods.

Our massive rock formation started with 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.

He learned the craft from his mentor, Rick Purcell, who spent more than fifty years building rock for zoos and places like them around the world, and who went looking for a lighter way to do it. Most of what we make is still sculpted by hand. A few pieces are molded, so we can make them again.

From our builds

Faux rock arch spanning a backyard poolSun through a faux rock archFaux rock outcrop with planting pocketsFaux rock arch at a home showSculpted faux rock spire among evergreensLayered faux sandstone walls at a home show

What would your formation look like?

Our artisans sculpt it, color it and can install it.

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