Stage 01
Brief
Most projects start as a paragraph and a few photographs of the room. Architects send drawings; builders send their joiner's set; homeowners send a brief and dimensions. We quote within two business days. The quote covers the piece, the finish, and the delivery rate to your postcode.
Stage 02
Drawings & Sample
Once you've signed off the quote, we produce a shop drawing if the piece is bespoke. For colour-critical work we cast a sample tile in the chosen pigment and post it to you for approval before the main pour. The sample is yours to keep.
Stage 03
Mould
We make the mould in the studio, in plywood and steel. Bespoke pieces get bespoke moulds; the mould remains studio property and lets you re-order in the same dimensions and finish years later without re-design fees. Standard-range moulds are reused across batches.
Stage 04
Cast
The cast itself takes a day. We batch the composition: a silica-free Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC, also referred to as GFRC) mix tuned for furniture rather than infrastructure. We blend pigments, vibrate the mould to release air, and let the cast set overnight before demoulding. Full-depth pours; no veneers, no thin facings. The piece you receive is the same composition all the way through.
Stage 05
Cure
Twenty-eight days. The composition gains roughly half its final strength in the first week and the balance over the remaining twenty-one. We don't shortcut the cure. Pieces dispatched before the full schedule mark, crack, or fail at the seal. The cure is non-negotiable; it's also the reason the piece will outlive most of your other furniture.
Stage 06
Finish
Hand finishing takes a week. Honed for soft hand-feel; semi-polished for a gentle sheen; polished for full reflective depth. Each finish reads slightly differently against pigment; the colour samples are cast in your chosen finish to remove any guesswork.
Stage 07
Seal
The studio seal is food-safe and UV-stable, built for ordinary household exposure. Outdoor pieces use a freeze-thaw-stable variant. We apply two coats and let it set under controlled humidity for forty-eight hours before packing.
Stage 08
Deliver
Pieces are crated for transit and delivered to the address on the order. Site-place at delivery in the Melbourne metro area; regional and interstate by specialist freight, quoted per order. The care guide ships with the piece.
Why this matters
The cure is what you're paying for.
The composition is special; the cure is what makes the composition deliver on what's special about it. Anyone with a bag of fast-set can pour a slab. Almost no one will leave it alone for the four weeks it takes to actually finish setting.
We've seen the alternative. Pieces that crack at the seal in year one. Surfaces that powder under a wet glass at year two. Dining tables that sag at the centre at year five. Same composition, shorter cure: different outcome entirely. Twenty-eight days is the floor.
The mix is Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC / GFRC): a silica-free composition reinforced with alkali-resistant glass fibres, four times the flexural strength of standard precast at a fraction of the section thickness. The same chemistry runs across every range: residential dining and bar tables, custom GRC furniture commissions, GRC outdoor seating, and commercial seating for hospitality and council briefs, sized and sealed to each project.
Where the work lives
The same process, across three contexts.
The eight stages above run the same way whether the piece is residential concrete furniture, a hospitality or council brief of commercial seating, or a bespoke custom commission. The composition, the cure, and the finish standard don't change. Brief, dimensions, and delivery context shift; the rest holds.