The Tadelakt Commission

The Hands Behind the Work

For more than twenty-five years, our master artisan has worked in tadelakt — an ancient Moroccan plaster that very few people in North America have ever truly mastered.

Since 2011 it has been the only thing he does. One material. One craft. One pair of hands.

It cannot be rushed, and it cannot be faked. He works the surface by hand, slowly, until it stops looking like a finish and starts looking like stone — soft, warm, alive under your palm. No machine can do this. 

His work is quietly sought after by some of the most private clients in the world. His name passes by word of mouth, among the people who already live with his pieces. In recent years he has turned to something rarer still: taking this centuries-old craft off the wall and shaping it into furniture.

In partnership with Vision Wall & Surfaces Techniques Inc. and New Age Artisans Puerto Rico, that work now comes to the Caribbean.

Every piece is commissioned. Nothing is mass produced. It starts with your idea — a sketch, a room, something you have pictured for years — and takes shape entirely in his hands, in a matter of weeks. No two pieces are ever alike, and none is ever made twice.

Made once, for one home, and kept for generations.