A drawing office
with a factory attached.
Founded in 2008, the atelier houses the drawing floor, the waterjet hall and the fitting benches under one roof — so the person who drew your cartoon can stand beside the machine that cuts it.
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Drawn one to one, before any stone is cut.
Every commission begins as a cartoon at full size on the atelier floor. The drawing is where proportions are settled, veins are chosen, and the client’s architect signs off — not on a rendering, but on the thing itself, at the scale it will be walked on.
The drawing is also where the practical questions are answered: how the floor meets the walls and the stair, where movement joints fall on the pattern lines, and how the thickness works over the substrate and any underfloor heating. Nothing that matters is left to the site to improvise.
Cut to a tenth of a millimetre.
Approved cartoons become cut plans, and cut plans drive multi-axis waterjets. Each piece is cut to ±0.1mm, numbered against the plan, and checked against its neighbours before it leaves the machine bed.
Marbles, semi-precious hardstones and brass are cut from the same files, so a medallion, its border and the field all come off one drawing. Offcuts are catalogued by the drawing, so a later repair can be matched to the original stone.
Closed by hand, until the joint reads as a line.
Machines get to a tenth of a millimetre; the last fraction is judgment. At the bench, each piece is eased against its neighbour until the joint disappears into the drawing. Then the whole field is dry-assembled, photographed, numbered and crated.
The dry assembly is the proof: the whole composition is laid out, checked against the plan and photographed for the client before anything is crated. It is the last chance to correct a tenth of a millimetre — and the reason what arrives fits first time.
One is a promise. The other keeps it.
About the atelier
Yes — clients and their architects are welcome by appointment, and a video call on the factory floor is a reasonable alternative for a large commission.
Yes. The drawing, the waterjet cutting, the hand-fitting and the dry assembly all happen under one roof in Jiangmen; nothing is outsourced, so there is no drift between the drawing and the stone.
The atelier was founded in 2008 and has shipped bespoke marble inlay to clients in more than 40 countries.
Yes — send CAD, a PDF or a hand sketch, and we return a cut plan and a material study for approval before any stone is cut.