OFFRANDE · 2026

This is the documentation of our studio in motion. Here we reveal the inner workings, the molds, the misfires, the material studies, the possibilities behind each piece. Because the underbelly is worth showing, and worth discussing. We continue a practice begun centuries ago, refining old techniques and creating our own. Lately this process has carried us into bas relief wall installations and plaques, all sculpted by hand, cast in glass, and illuminated from within. Much of what these pages record, the sketches, the clay, the firings, is their becoming. What takes shape is written here as it happens.

INTRODUCTION
INQUIRIES
PROCESS
CATALOG
COMMISSIONS [2027]
marceau Platter grey-blue

 CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 09-14-2026



glass texture experiments

 CATEGORY: PROCESS
DATE: 09-14-2026



L’HEURE DESSERT PLATE

 CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 09-02-2026



An altar, set daily, for the ceremony of the meal. The act of eating, kept as rite.



Marceau Half Octagon

 CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 09-01-2026


Whisper-thin at the tips, heavy and rooted at the base. Undergrowth cast in glass, delicate and dense at once, with air suspended in the pour like breath held underwater. Small accidents of the casting, kept, because they belong.



Studio tray

 CATEGORY: PROCESS
DATE: 08-31-2026


molds on table

CATEGORY: PROCESS
DATE: 08-25-2026


Marceau Platter, Dark Gradient
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 08-20-2026
The Marceau Platter returns from the kiln in its darkest register yet. A near-black body deepens at the center and warms at each end, breaking into two translucent handles where the light finally gets through. One form, one firing, a gradient that will not come back the same way twice.
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STUDY WITH PENCIL MARKINGS
CATEGORY: PROCESS
DATE: 08-14-2026


Materials on Studio Shelves
CATEGORY: PROCESS
DATE: 08-14-2026


Mold Technique Comparison, Brutalist Panel
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 08-11-2026

The twelve-inch brutalist panel, cast twice, so the mold could be the only question. We built it once from a traditional 910 investment mold and once from silkemat and set the two side by side. The method we trusted most is the one that clouded and scuffed. The newer material came back clean.

Silkemat gave us a faster build, a clearer body, and crisp lines, at the cost of a softened corner and some fine detail on reuse. For a brutalist form built on the hard edge, that trade is the whole conversation. This is where we are having it, in the open.
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Raw Clay relief study
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-30-2026




Sketch For Relief Study

CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-30-2026




Art Deco Personal Objects
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-27-2026

Three objects, built within five years of each other, share a habit worth stopping for: none of them are quite what they first show you. A clock built from the shape of a writing screen. A vanity case whose ornament borrows an entire vocabulary rather than a single flourish. A garden, rendered in stone and shell, that opens on a hidden hinge to release a photograph no one advertised it held. Two Paris houses, one instinct — and we're showing all of it.

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marceau platter sketch with color theory notes
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-30-2026




found image on blackboard
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-30-2026




ideatoion sketches
on blackboard
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-30-2026


marceau platter sketch
on blackboard
CATEGORY: CATALOG
DATE: 07-14-2026


    sketch for relief study

     CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 09-04-2026



    sketch for relief study

     CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 09-04-2026



    preparing silkemat mold

     CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-20-2026


    MARCEAU NO. 1 MOLD
    ON WORK TABLE

    CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-19-2026


    SKETCH ON PAPER on blackboard
    CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-14-2026


    Artisan’s Records
    CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-14-2026


    Color Theory Experimentation
    Cast Glass Medallion
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 08-11-2026

    One form, cast again and again across a shifting palette. The medallion holds still, its scrolled relief pressed from a single mold, while the color moves through it experiment by experiment. What we are testing is not the shape but the glass itself: how a frit read one way in the jar becomes something else entirely once the kiln has had it.

    Color here is never applied to the surface. It is packed into the body as crushed glass and revealed only by the fire. This is the palette study behind the piece, laid out in full.

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    found image on blackboard
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-30-2026




    artisan’s hands with raw clay
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-28-2026


    MOLD MAKING AND GLASS CASTING
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-27-2026
    Before glass becomes light, it is broken. Loose fragments, packed into a plaster void and given to the fire — which does what no hand can, drawing a thousand pieces into one translucent body. A study in what heat remembers...
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    marceau no.1’s first fire
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 06-09-2026

    We started with the overlooked — the obsessive marine studies of the Blaschkas — and reverse-engineered their discipline into original an original category. Where they sought the exact, we introduced the brute: a heavy, deliberate obtuseness pressed into the form until precision and force held each other in balance. Iteration is the philosophy, not a phase. What you see is the study that survived, each iteration sharpens the odds...

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    studies on table
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 05-15-2026


    studies on table
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 05-15-2026



    RELIEF STUDY IN PROGRESS

     CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 09-02-2026



    Molds on work table 

     CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-31-2026



    MEDALLION COLOR THEORY

    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 08-18-2026


    Artisans at Work

    CATEGORY: PROCESS
    DATE: 08-14-2026


    marceau no. 1 silkemat mold
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 08-11-2026


    Frit Experimenation in Mold
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 08-11-2026

    ideation Still Life in studio
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-30-2026




    medallion plate paper collage

    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-30-2026




    color & scale panel study

    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-27-2026

    Three objects from two Paris houses, made within five years of each other, share one quiet habit: each takes something whole, a scholar's table screen, a vocabulary of Chinese motifs, a garden landscape, and rebuilds it in precious material as an object with an entirely different job, leaving the source legible for anyone paying attention. Cartier turned a Chinese desk screen into a clock and lifted a decorative language into a vanity case. Verger Frères, one of only two ateliers holding the mystery clock's secret, disguised a mechanical photograph frame as nothing but a mosaic garden, its second identity hidden until you flip it over. Read them together and the instinct becomes clearer than any one piece reveals on its own.

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    relief study in progress
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 07-16-2026


    marceau medallion
    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 05-15-2026


    platter study greenware

    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 04-13-2026


    platter study greenware

    CATEGORY: CATALOG
    DATE: 04-13-2026


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