About Kona Stone
Artist. Fabricator. Installer.
Kona Stone is Joseth Barrera and his crew in Fullerton, California. Natural stone fabrication and installation: the layout, the cut, the finish and the install, by the same hands.
MarbleCalacatta ViolaThe craft
Layout is everything.
It is what reviewers notice: Joseth maps the slab. Where the veins run, where the seams fall, how the pattern turns the corner on a miter. On a stone like Calacatta Viola, that is the whole job.
"This is ART!" Joseth, on a Calacatta Viola fireplace he called one of the most challenging he has fabricated.
ShopSlab layoutHow a job goes
From slab to install.
Choose the stone
Bring your slab or pick one with your designer at the yard. Quartzite, marble, dolomite, soapstone, agate, Neolith.
Map the slab
We lay out the cuts on the actual slab so the veining lines up at seams and miters.
Fabricate
Cut, miter, edge and finish, polished or honed. Ogee and mitered waterfall edges are in the portfolio.
Install
The same crew sets it in your home.
In good company
Built with designers and trades.
Kona Stone jobs are often a collaboration: interior designers, builders, slab yards, plumbers and the electricians who wire the backlit pieces. Joseth credits them in his posts.