The MD Family Estate / CM Project, Dhaka
A monumental four-hundred-square-meter atrium and ballroom floor selected for exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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What this project had to solve
A palace-scale ballroom floor shipped as 40+ numbered panels and reassembled on site.
Stone palette: Bianco Carrara, Nero Marquina, Verde Alpi.
The MD Family Estate / CM Project, Dhaka in detail
This landmark private residence in Dhaka called for a monumental ballroom and atrium floor exceeding four hundred square meters, requiring intricate geometric marble marquetry spanning the entire expanse.
In 2015, Art Inlay’s landmark execution of this estate was formally selected for the Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Artistic & Creative Design Achievements at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, with Founder Wang Fei attending as official cultural representative.
Due to shipping logistics, the vast design was divided into more than forty modular panels, with every joint concealed along ornamental design lines rather than artificial grid cuts.
Components in Bianco Carrara, Nero Marquina, and Italian Verde Alpi were fabricated on multi-axis waterjets and pre-assembled across our atelier's staging floor to verify seamless pattern registration.
Each crate contained an indexed setting plan and color-coded placement markers, enabling the local installation crew to execute the palace-scale assembly without alignment discrepancy.
From drawing to crating
Full-size drawing
The pattern is drawn 1:1 on the atelier floor before any stone is cut, so proportions are settled at the scale you will walk on.
Stone selection
Blocks and slabs are chosen against the drawing, vein by vein, and photographed for your approval.
Waterjet cutting
Multi-axis waterjet cuts every piece direct from the approved CAD file, held to ±0.1mm across the whole figure.
Dry assembly & crating
The composition is assembled, inspected and numbered on the factory floor, then crated with a setting plan.