London based designer
About
cusinbercheoctave@gmail.com
+33769327415
1-Royal College of Art
2-A.Association
2-Central Saint Martins
4-Ateliers de Sèvres
1-2024-2025
2-04/2025
3-2021-2024
4-2019-2020
PRESS & TALKS
2-Talk at Type & Faces
3-Seize Magazine issue n°1
4-Unknown Quantities Issue n°11
Seoul
2-02/2025
London
3-05/2024
London
4-01/2024
London
WORK
2-Dry stone walling for the Ripple, Ripple, Rippling exhibition at the Architectural Association
3-Dry stone walling freelance
01/2025
2-09/2024
London
3- 2018-now
EXHIBITION
01/2025
CLIENTS
-Sundial System (wip)
-Genius Luci type system
-Ad Vitam
-AA visiting school
-S,T,T exhibition
-R,R,R exhibition
-Dordogne
-Cantal
Final result
film photographs by C. Octave
film photographs by C. Octave
Opportunity to take part in the Komatsu Stone Visiting School in Manazuru, Japan, thanks to the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation scholarship, alongside 17 other students and stone practitioners.
Our aim was to build a stone structure that responded both to the needs of the Manazuru community and to its intricate, poetic architectural and visual design language.
Thanks to everyone’s dedication and a truly collaborative community design process, we worked closely with the quarry masters and the local town council. After twelve days of intense creative work with stone, we were proud to present the completed structure to the town’s mayor. The large, polished satin stones forming the main platform were inspired by traditional tatami layouts, with an integrated tea station embracing the form of the platform. A wide, square floor boundary, influenced by the design of traditional Japanese gardens, uses gravel to gently separate the structure from the surrounding stone mass of the quarry.
I had the chance to work on the site’s architectural typology, local symbols, the rich textures of the Komatsu stone and the community’s relationship with it. This included dry stone walling, architectural patterning, and coping stones made from slices cut using the quarry master’s traditional plug and feather technique. I also contributed a stonemason’s mark—a revival of a local ancestral tradition. A simple one: 石 (ishi), meaning “stone”.
Letter engarving
Making of the engraving
Dry stone wall enclosing covered with off cut copping stone
Measurement and cutting of the structure’s main stones
The Takebayashi workshop
film photograph by C.Octave
film photograph by C.Octave
The Takebayashi Stone Masonry ltd team that provided with invaluable help on the project
film photograph by C.Octave
film photograph by C.Octave