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About SnapCo Architectural Concrete
Architectural concrete furniture, benchtops, and surfaces, made to order at our Mordialloc studio. The practice has been making furniture in Victoria since 1991; the concrete focus has sharpened over the last decade. Trading as SnapCo Architectural Concrete (formerly Snap Concrete); legal entity SNAP CONCRETE PTY LTD.
Studio / What we make
Architectural concrete tuned for furniture, not infrastructure.
Most concrete is engineered for a different problem: bridges, slabs, and foundations, where the brief is structural strength at lowest cost. The composition that solves those briefs is heavy, brittle at edges, full of silica dust, and too coarse to hold a hand-finished surface.
The SnapCo composition is the opposite of that. Silica-free, glass-fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC, also known as GRC, or Glass Reinforced Concrete under the Australian standard), roughly four times the strength of standard precast at a third the section thickness. The high flexural strength lets us cast pieces thinner yet stronger: less material per piece, low waste, no harmful by-products, lower environmental impact than conventional concrete furniture. Real architectural concrete, cast solid so the surface you see is the material itself, not a veneer over substrate. Sealed at finish with a food-safe, UV-stable seal.
We've been making furniture in Victoria since 1991. The architectural concrete focus has sharpened over the last decade: refining the recipe, the cure schedule, the pigment-batching, and the seal. The things you don't see, and that compound into the things you do.
The work spans residential concrete furniture, hospitality and creative-agency commercial seating, and custom-built commissions for architects, designers, councils, and public-realm projects. The studio is small enough to keep every brief on one bench yet experienced enough to handle the multi-stage trade work that comes with a fit-out.
Studio Principal
Peter
I took over the studio in 2021. Most days you'll find me at the Mordialloc factory. The team handles the day-to-day: craftspeople, interior designers, and product designers run the briefs, the pours, and the finishes. But I love jumping into a pour, working a finish, or heading out to a tricky install. The standard every piece leaves at is mine.
The practice has been making furniture in Victoria since 1991. Alex started it and ran it as a furniture studio for thirty years. When I took it over I inherited the people as well as the workshop. The blacksmith who shapes our steel legs and the wood craftsman who builds our timber legs are still in the Daylesford region, where they've been doing the same work for decades. The only thing that's changed is what sits on top.
I moved the casting side to Mordialloc when I took over. It's a working factory at 22 Beach Avenue, not a showroom; Vincenzo leads the casting team. Legs come down from Daylesford, marry to the slab in Mordialloc, and ship from there to wherever you are in the country.
Architects and builders, designers and homeowners. The work I'm proudest of is the work that gets used heavily. The balance we aim for is architectural-grade design with engineered durability: furniture made to be lived with and handed down.
Bylined posts on the journal / Studio Principal / Mordialloc, Victoria
Studio / The team
The Mordialloc team.
Vincenzo leads the casting team in Mordialloc, and most of the crew has been with him for years. They handle every step a piece goes through: mixing the composition, pouring into the mould, screeding the surface, demoulding after the first day, polishing and sealing through the 28-day cure. Concrete is a material that asks for steady hands and steady habits. The same people doing the same job, year after year, and the consistency shows.
For Melbourne metro deliveries, the piece comes out of our own truck. The same team that cast it drives it to your address, walks it through the door, and sets it where you want it. We watch it land. Outside Melbourne, freight is crated, tracked door-to-door, and handed off to your installer or builder at the other end.
The studio at a glance
Since 1991. Two facilities. Hand-cast in Melbourne.
- Founded
- 1991
- Founded by Alex as a Victorian furniture practice. Peter took over in 2021, continuing the development of our concrete chemistry and designs for the architecture and design sector. Rebranded from Snap Concrete to SnapCo Architectural Concrete in 2026 as the architectural focus crystallised.
- Studios
- Two
- Concrete cast at our Mordialloc studio, 22 Beach Avenue VIC 3195. Steel and timber crafted at our Daylesford workshop.
- Reviews
- 26 · 5★
- Google Business Profile. Average rating 5.0/5.0 across 26 reviews to date.
- Cure
- 28 days
- Every piece cures the full 28 days under controlled humidity before sealing. Full chemistry, full strength, a surface that holds.
Process / How a piece is made
Quote in two days. Cure for twenty-eight.
Most pieces start as a brief or a joiner's drawing. We quote within two business days. The cast itself takes a day; the cure runs the full 28; finishing takes a week. Four to six weeks total from quote acceptance to delivery.
The longer guide, with photographs from the studio, is on the approach page.
Studio / Get in touch
Working on a brief? Send it through.
Architects, builders, designers, and homeowners. Drawings or a paragraph, both work. We respond within two business days.