Daily Inspiration: Meet Garry Carmack

Today we’d like to introduce you to Garry Carmack.

Hi Garry, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
We had an amazing opportunity to continue a creative legacy that not many people get to. Blend our love of art and creativity with steel, stone and grit. We moved back to Colorado in 2020 and I lived with an amazing woman named JIll Cyvka until we could fully transition here, took about 8 months, She and her former husband, Dwayne Cranford, had started Stone2Furniture originally in the early 2000’s. I have a background in high end custom stone masonry and had moved back to work on a multi year project. Jill began to apprentice me on the intricate details creating these beautiful functional pieces of art, that happen to be chairs, benches and simple tables. After 4 years of creating pieces and building the confidence, Jill offered for my wife, Jennifer, and I to take over in October of 24, so we did!! We have built an array of pieces this year from limestone art pedestals, that displayed Veronique Guerrieri’s sculptures while in Aspen, at Eden Gallery, on their world tour, to a memorial bench for someone’s loved one to be placed by their favorite spot on their families property. It’s been exciting to this point and we’re feeling positive for 2026.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
If the road is 70 during a blizzard with bald tires then yep smooth sailing! From the majority of orders coming from out of state, pictures can’t always show exact detail. It can be challenging to show to what stone looks like and its textures and dimensions, by images alone. We take the setting and environment as inspiration to create the perfect piece. Creative differences have happened whether it is the contour of a top, the beveling on edges, positioning of pieces, color of stone but with that, it makes you more critical to essential details that create even flow lines and textures. Our biggest struggle is finding great material, you have to put in the miles to find choice stone, and those places you depend on might not have that magical piece so you keep going till you do find it. We hand work all the stone that gets to be a struggle occasionally. They break, they’re heavy, you’re constantly moving them whether its shaping, dry fit, drilling. The amount of times you move the same stone is insanity.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m a Stone Mason by trade, I specialize in high end custom masonry, maintenance, facelifts, art instillations and stone furnishings sold at high end art galleries from Sedona, Aspen and the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Most proud of the final product on all the things I’ve worked on. I built the navigational Cairn at the revitalization of Heron Pond Open Space and Carpio Sanguinette Park, City of Denver It reopens from being upgraded in 2026 at some point, Felt awesome to be a part of that. My attention to detail with the hardest of materials and circumstances, being efficient and providing the highest level of beauty and precision within execution that surpasses any expectation and the track record to prove it.

Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
I’m a published poet, have 2 albums I wrote songs for multiple bands, played college basketball, and wrote some Codes Of Federal Regulations that the oil and gas industry has to operate under, received awards from the Coast Guard.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.stone2furniture.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mountaintopstoneworks