Essay
On the Weight of Materials
Some surfaces announce themselves through mass alone. A short note on choosing materials for how they feel to stand near, not only how they look in a photograph.
Plaster, raking light
About the Studio
Nerith works from the premise that a room is finished when there is nothing left to remove.
Every project begins with the qualities that are hardest to draw: how a hallway holds morning light, the sound a room makes when it's empty, the temperature of a material under bare feet. These become the brief before any furniture is chosen.
The studio favours a small material language — stone, plaster, timber, unlacquered metal — repeated with discipline rather than varied for effect. Restraint is treated as a design decision, not an absence of ideas.
Drawings are developed alongside physical samples, and proportions are tested at full scale wherever possible, so that decisions are made against the material itself rather than a rendering of it.
