
Material Study
Mar 2025·6 min
On honed lava stone: weight, warmth, weathering
Lava stone has none of the bourgeois associations of marble, but twice the personality. A short essay on specifying it for kitchens.
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Lava stone has none of the bourgeois associations of marble, but twice the personality. A short essay on specifying it for kitchens.
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Notes from the Monolith House site visit — three contractors, one continuous pour, sub-zero temperatures.
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Five details from the Azure Penthouse that we borrowed from residential briefs — and why they belong everywhere.
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A short methodology piece on the questions we ask, the things we don't, and the document we never show the client.
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