Offcut 05 table

Studio Raw Material
Dushyant & Priyanka, graduates from Royal College of Arts at London, based in Jaipur, India

Studio Raw Material is an ongoing exploration of geology in terms of material and processes. Our studio and workshop are based in the desert plains of western India.
Offcuts of marble form the starting point for our practice. All marble fragments occupy a liminal position in a composition and contribute functionally in relation to the others.
We study marble craft observing building techniques used in ancient Indian temples and architectural monuments. We explore these alternate aspects of craft – the structure and mathematics of balance, building techniques based on weight and gravity. All our pieces use these principles of joinery; they are constructed rather assembled without the use of any adhesives or mortar.

THE OFFCUT SERIES
As splinters of cultural importance or wasteful debris created by man, fragments provide traces of their past and have helped create an understanding of the physical world. To us, each fragment is unique with its individual history and abstract notions of origin, identity and possibilities of rectification.
The Offcut series explores limits of balance within a set of geometric forms. We have composed these fragments through careful consideration of their materiality, structure and mathematics of balance. Various fragments are precisely placed to create a whole.
Offcut 05 uses principles of joinery; it is constructed rather assembled without the use of any adhesives or mortar.