About GardenStone

Bob Naymie is the founder and president of GardenStone.  His specialty has always been blending today’s technology with yesterday’s craftsmanship.  He has been a talented high-end residential builder constructing award winning homes in Beverly Hills and Malibu.  He founded GardenStone in an artist community in the Kootenays, B.C., where he started design with local sculptors and production in his garage mixing specialty concrete.  Since then he has moved his facilities to Vancouver, expanding both his production capabilities and his product line.  Keeping up with the latest garden styles, working with visionary designers and having reasonable prices represent his commitment to bringing affordable beauty to your gardens and homes.

Alex Sukhomlinov is the creator behind most of our classic European collection.  Alex is from Odessa in the Ukraine.  For generations  his family has been doing the exquisite plaster molding seen in museums and palaces.  His family’s company did the decorative plaster in the interior of Michael Gorbachov’s dacha.  We are fortunate he has turned his substantial talents to our much smaller edifices.

Russell Hackney is the creator behind most of our contemporary pieces. Russell is from Stoke-on-Trent in England, a region renowned for its fine ceramics. He learned his trade from his father, and his perfectly pitched use of balance and line have created pieces of universal appeal. One of the highlights of his career was the design and creation of a commemorative clock presented to the Queen.

Jack Richman is the operations manager at GardenStone.  He has the responsibility of overseeing the production of all the intricately detailed pieces we have.  His years of metallurgic analysis in the mining industry bring a science to the art of concrete production.  We are lucky to have such competent hands and eyes on our team.