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Masonry

InSitu – a Redding Estate

Check out this Redding estate, InSitu, featured in a Connecticut Cottages Gardens article which includes the masonry work of my father Salvatore Pilato and my sculpture, stone and water features. This rare garden includes 18 “rooms” rich with texture, gorgeous in its layers but also subtle with the movement of grasses, plants and water. InSitu, a product of renowned landscape architect Richard Hartlage and owner Michael Marocco, was an inspiring place to create stonework and sculpture. We were proud to have created pools, fireplace, pizza oven, water features and other structures for both beauty and function. I see how

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Fire

Pizza Ovens

We do not see the wood-fired pizza oven as a trend. For Sal, born on the island of Ischia, in the bay of Naples, an outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven is the equivalent to having a grill or barbecue. For Neapolitans, the best pizza is made at home surrounded by friends and family. So when Sal moved to Redding, CT, shortly after he built his house and expanded his garden, he built an outdoor pizza oven. Since then, he has worked on over 20 ovens, including commercial and residential ovens in New Haven and Fairfield County.

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