Private Villa, Harbin — bespoke marble inlay by Art Inlay
Custom marble inlay flooring · 2022

Private Villa, Harbin

A unified botanical theme linking stair treads and a ballroom medallion on a shared vertical plumb axis, engineered for severe northern winter climate cycling.

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LocationHarbin
CollectionCustom marble inlay flooring
ScopeStair hall & ballroom
Completed2022
Ballroom medallion on the same centre as the stair-hall landing below.
Ballroom medallion on the same centre as the stair-hall landing below.
The brief

What this project had to solve

One medallion geometry repeated across two floors, so the landing and the ballroom sit on a shared centre.

Stone palette: Crema Marfil, Emperador Dark, Rosso Verona.

The commission

Private Villa, Harbin in detail

In this grand private villa in Harbin, a single ornamental motif unites two vertical levels: an organic branch pattern beginning in the stair hall, traveling up radial tread inlays, and resolving into a central ballroom medallion.

The primary technical requirement was vertical plumb: the first-floor medallion had to sit on the identical spatial coordinate as the lower landing, creating a shared visual axis when viewed down the stairwell.

To withstand northern heating seasons with heavy underfloor thermal cycling, the stone fields were engineered with perimeter buffers and sealed with flexible breathable sealants.

Fabricated in Crema Marfil, Dark Emperador, and Rosso Verona, the dual-level assembly was dry-fitted in our facility to verify alignment before shipping, ensuring flawless execution on site.

How we make it

From drawing to crating

01

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.

02

Stone selection

Blocks and slabs are chosen against the drawing, vein by vein, and photographed for your approval.

03

Waterjet cutting

Multi-axis waterjet cuts every piece direct from the approved CAD file, held to ±0.1mm across the whole figure.

04

Dry assembly & crating

The composition is assembled, inspected and numbered on the factory floor, then crated with a setting plan.

On site

The finished work, photographed

Commissions

Every commission begins with a drawing.

Send the plan, a sketch or a photograph of a floor you admire. We return a material study, a full-size cut plan and an itemised quotation.

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