Grand Luxury Villa, Wuhan

This grand Wuhan villa runs dark marble corridors inlaid with brass, through the full reception sequence. The brief was for metal and stone to read as one surface — no raised strip, no visible seam where the brass meets the Nero Portoro.

Metal in stone is a tolerance game: brass and stone move differently with heat, so the channels were cut to the same ±0.1mm as the stone, the fillets set flush, and the whole surface lapped until the line work sits in the same plane as the marble. The panels were dry-assembled and photographed before crating.

Installed, the corridors read as a single dark composition stitched with fine brass lines — the metal catching the light exactly where the drawing intended.

The brass was cut and set in the same waterjet file as the stone, so the two materials meet on a shared edge rather than a filled gap. A slight crowned lap keeps the metal fractionally proud at the polished fields, so the line catches the light without tripping the eye.