Asheville School Patio

We built a large circular patio in the midst of The Bement Garden on the Asheville School campus, featuring a mosaic inlay medallion as the centerpiece. Our friend Mardi Letson of Gardens by Mardi designed the space. The mosaic inlay is based on the school’s crest.

A detail about the mosaic inlay: the cross is made of red granite from Sweden. The little square of pink granite in the center is actually from the chapel on the Asheville School campus. The day I was there to first see the site they showed me the chapel, a sturdy structure of pink and gray granite. As it happened, there was a crew there working on the heating and cooling system. They had used a coring drill to put some holes in the wall of the chapel to run their piping. I was able to find a couple of the cores they had made, 3″ diameter cylinders of pink granite. Of course I snagged all I could find! I cut a small chip off and polished it to put into this inlay.