Commission 04 · Basins, vanities & baths
Vessel basin, turned from block
حوض منحوت
A freestanding bowl that sits on a counter. Small enough that a beautiful offcut becomes the whole piece, which is why this is the one commission where an exceptional stone is affordable — a block too small for a floor is exactly the right size for a basin.
How it is built
A bowl with a wall you can see light through.
- Turned or milled from a single block, wall thickness taken down to 12–18 mm, which is where alabaster and onyx start to pass light.
- The rim is the tell. A thick clumsy rim is what makes a cheap stone bowl look cheap, so ours are taken to 12 mm and hand-polished.
- Waste is either a slotted overflow or a clean unslotted hole with a click waste, decided before carving because it changes the base.
| Typical size | 380–450 mm across, 120–150 mm deep |
|---|---|
| Wall | 12–18 mm, translucent in alabaster and onyx |
| Waste | Slotted with overflow, or clean with a click waste |
Worth knowing before you order
Onyx and alabaster are soft and porous. Beautiful in a guest cloakroom, wrong in a children's bathroom.
Stone
What it is cut from.
Egyptian Alabaster is the one to see in the flesh. It is genuinely translucent, it has been carved in this country for four thousand years, and a lamp behind a bowl of it does something no other stone does.
Egyptian Alabaster
Translucent banded calcite — the stone of the pharaonic workshops.
Beige Onyx
Warm beige banding, the workhorse of the onyx range.
Green Onyx
Deep green banding with pale translucent veins.
Onyx Miele
Honey onyx — the classic, and the warmest.
Rosa El Nasr
Soft pink feldspar with grey and black speckle.
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Also in basins, vanities & baths
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A stack of stone discs turning around a hidden core.
Monolithic vanity, basin carved in
One block. The basin is not fitted to it, it is taken out of it.
Mitred waterfall vanity
Twenty millimetres of stone that reads as two hundred.
Solid stone bath
The heaviest thing that will ever go into the room.