A striking new installation exploring the sustainable potential of natural stone has taken centre stage at Clerkenwell Design Week 2025, with the latest expression of The Stone Tapestry unveiled this week in Clerkenwell Green, just a short walk from Farringdon station.

Set opposite The Crown Tavern, this year’s Stone Tapestry is designed to spark conversations around the reusability, versatility, and enduring sustainability of natural stone — widely regarded as nature’s original low-impact building material.

A Celebration of Craft and Circular Design

Created as a collaborative effort between architectural practice Squire & Partners and the Stone Federation, the installation showcases how natural stone can deliver bold and understated designs, with textures that range from delicate to robust — all while offering circularity through reusability and minimal environmental impact.

The installation serves not only as a design piece but as a hub for dialogue, inviting architects, interior designers, engineers, and clients to explore natural stone’s role in sustainable construction and low-carbon architecture.

Industry Collaboration

The Stone Tapestry brings together expertise from across the natural stone sector. Contributing material suppliers and fabricators include:

  • Albion Stone plc

  • A F Jones Stonemasons

  • ALS by Airelimestones

  • Britannicus Stone

  • Hutton Stone Co Ltd

  • Marble Collective Ltd

  • The Stonemasonry Company Limited

  • Welsh Slate

Each partner has contributed specialist knowledge and material to shape a tactile, thought-provoking installation that reflects the aesthetic flexibility and low-carbon potential of stone in contemporary architecture.

Raising Awareness of Natural Stone’s Role in Sustainable Design

With sustainable construction high on the agenda across the built environment, The Stone Tapestry highlights how natural stone can meet modern sustainability targets while offering beauty, longevity, and creative freedom.

As the debate around embodied carbon and material reusability intensifies, the installation acts as a live case study of how natural stone supports circular economy principles, making it a material of increasing interest to future-facing designers and developers.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 continues throughout the week, offering a platform for design-led innovation and sustainable thinking in the architecture and interiors sectors.