L'Offrant · 2026


This is the record of a practice in motion. Here we open the process — the molds, the misfires, the material studies, the reasoning behind each piece — because the work is the teacher, and the making is worth showing. We continue a lineage begun over a century ago, not as nostalgia but as unfinished work, refining old techniques and inventing our own. We are less interested in objects than in presence: what a thing carries, and what it leaves behind. Nothing here is for the season; it is for the long now. Read it as a workbook, not a catalog.


INTRODUCTION
INQUIRIES
PROCESS
CATALOG
COMMISSIONS [2027]

Title: Video, Medallion Color Theory
Category: Catlog
Date: 08-18-2026

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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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1. SA holds the first fire of the brutalist panel, 2026. Photo: Studio.

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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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1. Cast Glass Medallion Palette, 2026. Photo: Studio.

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Title: Relief Study, Raw Clay 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Blackboard, Sketch For Relief Study 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Blackboard, Ideation Sketches 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Blackboard, Inspiration, Found Image 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Blackboard, Medallion Plate, Paper Collage 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Inspiration Study, Art Deco Personal Objects
Category: Process
Date: 07-29-2026
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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1. Mechanical Photograph Frame by Verger Frères.

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Title: Blackboard, Platter Sketch, Color Theory 
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Relief Study, Multi Panel Raw Clay Tiles
Category: Process
Date: 07-28-2026

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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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1. EQ carries mold in studio, Plaster Mold, 2026. Photo: Studio.

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Title: Kiln Study, Cast Glass Panel
Category: Process
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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1. Marceau Study, Cast Glass - Multicolor with Carnelian Cabochons, 2026. Photo: Studio.

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Title: Blackboard, Found Image
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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Title: Blackboard, Pencil Sketches on Paper
Category: Process
Date: 07-30-2026

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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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1. First Fire Samples, Cast Glass, 2026. Photo: Studio

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