Beaver Island flagstone platform, Beaver Island, Michigan
A six-inch-thick limestone platform set on three main bearing points, low enough to climb on and exact enough to read as a deliberate object.
The platform was meant to sit near the shore and behave somewhere between a piece of furniture and a piece of terrain. It needed to feel stable, slightly lifted, and simple enough to survive being looked at for a long time.
A four-point setting rocks. A three-point setting does not. The six-inch-thick limestone platform sits on three main bearing points — dressed basalt boulders, set half-buried and flat on top — with hand-cut limestone support pads taking the final level.
No anchors were necessary. A heavy slab on three honest bearings stays where it is told by gravity alone.
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