Constructing together
I work as an artist-builder, not a design firm.
As an artist-builder, and unlike a traditional design practice, I do not offer a menu of standardized services: each project is conceived, developed, and executed as a singular work, carried by an artistic vision from first conversation to completed installation.
This approach has a specific structure. It proceeds in defined stages, each with its own scope, fee, and deliverables. At each stage you decide — freely and with full information — whether to continue. This page explains what those stages are, what they cost, and what you receive.
Art-making is not strictly linear. Occasionally a stage revisits an earlier one — this is stated in advance, planned for, and reflected in the schedule and budget.
The Process
Most design work is presented as a straight line — five neat stages, one direction, no returns. Art work is not like that. In practice, making something honest often means going back: a material that refuses the drawing, a site that contradicts the survey, an idea that only reveals its flaw once it exists in wood or stone. Rather than pretend otherwise, my process builds in this feedback. Revisiting an earlier stage is not a failure — it is how the ideas and outcomes improve. When you commission a work, you are not buying a straight line; you are buying a process that knows how to retrace its steps with purpose.
1 - Open Dialogue
Conversations and site visits to establish what the project is actually about: how you use the space, what you respond to, what the constraints really are.
Concludes with: a written summary of direction and a fee framework for the following stages.
Timeframe: 1–2 days · €350–700, credited in full if you continue.
2 - Studies and visions
Distinct propositions, drawn and modeled. One of them will be the one — you will recognize it, and so will I. This stage concludes with the identification of a chosen direction, and a first honest accounting of what it demands.
Timeframe: 1–2 weeks · €1750-3500
Ends with your decision to proceed, revise, or stop.
3 - Design Development
Material, structure, cost, calendar — everything resolved to the point where the object could be built without guesswork. Where the work has a physical component, this stage usually loops: paper does not fully answer for wood, stone, or light, so small proofs and prototypes are built here, and what they teach is folded back in before the real making begins.
Timeframe: a fews weeks, depending on scale.
Approval point: final design and fixed price — nothing proceeds without both.
On being the right size
The iterative nature of this process makes larger projects more tractable than they first appear: because the work returns to earlier stages as it develops, a big project can be divided into parts, each taken through its own cycle of listening, vision, and making, at a scale that remains manageable. What is learned in the first part informs everything that follows.
4 - Construction
Work takes place in my studio, by my hands or under my direct supervision. Regular photographic documentation; site or studio visits at agreed milestones. Any modification passes through a defined process, priced before it is executed.
Timeframe: a couple of weeks to several months, depending on scale.
Priced on quotation, confirmed at the close of Stage 3.
5 - Installation & Follow Up
Delivery, installation, and instruction on the care of the work. Follow-up at three months. I remain reachable afterwards.
Included for realized projects; quoted separately for Study and Design-only engagements.
On fees
My work is priced on one basis: €350 per working day — what I need to earn in order to live and work as an independent maker. Nothing is marked up, nothing is discounted; the fee for each stage is simply this rate multiplied by my honest estimate of the days that stage requires, and I commit to that figure once agreed.
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If you're interested in working together, complete the form with a few details about your project. I'll review your message and get back to you within 48 hours.