Stonegraph / Where it stands
Rooms this work was made for.
Stone leaves the workshop as a piece and arrives as part of a building. Five kinds of room it ends up in, each shown with something we actually carved for one — named, so you know exactly what you are looking at.
Setting 01 · Hospitality
Lobbies and lounges
A hotel lobby is a room people wait in, which means they have time to look. It is the one place where a wall carved edge to edge earns its cost twice over — once when it is seen from the door, and again when somebody standing at the desk reads the detail in it.
Pieces at this scale are cut in sections, dry-assembled here, then numbered so the joints fall where the drawing says and not where the installer guesses.
Large-format panels · sectional joints · deep relief
Setting 02 · Sacred
Temples and prayer rooms
A shrine is not decoration and it is not judged as decoration. The proportions come from Vastu, the iconography has to be right, and the person who will use it every morning will notice a hand that was in a hurry.
These are the pieces our carvers were trained on before they were trained on anything else, and they are still the ones the workshop argues about most.
Prabhavali · carved shloka · gilding · backlighting
Setting 03 · Residential
Halls and living rooms
In a house the stone has to live with everything else in the room — the furniture, the light through one window, the wall it is fixed to. So a domestic piece is specified backwards: we start from where it will hang and how the light crosses it, and choose the depth of the carving from that.
Too deep and a hall panel throws shadows that fight the lamps. Too shallow and it disappears at noon.
Framed panels · shallow relief · fixed or free-standing
Setting 04 · Thresholds
Entrances and courtyards
A piece at an entrance is the first thing that is touched and the last thing that is remembered, and it is outdoors or half-outdoors, which changes the stone before it changes the carving.
Granite and hard sandstone here rather than soft marble: they take weather, they take hands, and they hold an edge for a century of monsoons.
Granite · hard sandstone · free-standing · weathering
Setting 05 · Contemporary
Galleries and modern interiors
The minimal, sharp-edged work is the harder discipline, not the easier one. A traditional relief hides a slip inside its own ornament; a plain curve in Carrara hides nothing at all, and every millimetre of the surface is the finished piece.
This is where the machine earns its place and the hand finishes what the machine cannot read.
Carrara · free-standing sculpture · abstract form
The client work is on the portfolio.
The named commissions — the palace hotels, the temples, the public landmarks — live there, with the project photographs as they come in.
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