— has signed every set since 2009. The stair detail on your sheet A-311 is still his pencil.
Elias trained as a joiner before he trained as an architect, and the order shows: sections come off his board with the fixings already resolved. He still draws every stair, every threshold and every title block by hand, and he has signed every set the studio has issued.
— runs the bench and the site. If a reveal moves a millimetre, she is the one who comes back.
Marta ran her own bench for a decade before the studio had a name. She prices the work, sequences the site, and holds every Friday walk-through against the sheets — the tolerance the drawings promise is the tolerance she signs off.
Nine carpenters and three architects share the roof — the drawing boards at one end of the shop, the bench at the other, and nothing between them but sawdust. Questions get answered by walking, not by email, which is why the sets stay honest and the tolerances stay small.
— general note 02: every detail we draw has been argued over by the person who has to cut it.
Site surveys, soil borings, sun studies. We write the program with you at the table, and the budget goes in writing before a single line is drawn.
Schematics into design development. The architects who draw your stair detail share a workshop wall with the carpenters who will cut it.
A full permit and construction set — every reveal, every threshold, every finish drawn, scheduled and priced. The number you sign is the number we build to.
Our own carpenters, one site supervisor, a walk-through held against the sheets every Friday. Nothing that touches the visible work is subcontracted.
Commissioning, the final key, and a set that stays open for the year that follows. We walk the house with you at month twelve, and come back if a reveal has moved a millimetre.
— Fieldstone Court, predesign to key. Every commission keeps a ledger like this one; this is what twenty-four months of custody reads like.
The Ellisons arrive with a survey and a shoebox of clippings. The budget goes in writing before a single line is drawn.
The set closes at ninety-one sheets — every reveal, every threshold, every finish drawn, scheduled and priced. The number is signed.
Excavation opens the morning the permit clears. One site supervisor takes custody of the sheets and keeps them to the end.
First framing walk-through. The Ellisons stand in their kitchen a year before it exists, sheets in hand.
The stair arrives from our own shop in one piece and fits the opening the way the drawing said it would.
The final key. The account closes on the number signed in predesign.
The set stays open for twelve months past the key. At the year walk, one reveal had moved a millimetre. We came back.
Ledger closed — the number signed in predesign never moved
The bench takes eight briefs a year.
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