Foundry Series · Self-initiated personal project

Imagining people lost in their art.

None of these houses exist. I invent each one around a craft that does and set it in the country that craft comes from: a Black Forest clock house, a Cremona violin bench, a barong workshop in Laguna. The part I keep coming back to is picturing the person inside — hours gone, absorbed in it. 22 so far, with more countries to come. Websites are what I know how to make; working with AI is what let me make them about the things I love.

Every one on the map it belongs to, lit by the real hour of its own day.

Shokunin homepage presenting a samurai armor commission under a single shaft of light.

Tsutsumiya homepage introducing a canal-side wrapping house and its system of cloth, knots, and carried objects.

Dar el Warda homepage pairing its name and the statement “A house with no view but the sky” with an arched courtyard view.

Hurr homepage introducing a Saker falcon house in Al Ain through hood, handling, and keeper practice.

Schwarzwald homepage featuring a carved cuckoo clock against a forest-green field.

Lagar do Sol homepage featuring a white Alentejo estate among olive trees.

Casa Vicente homepage featuring a close view of a handmade Spanish guitar and the words “A guitar is a voice waiting in the wood.”

Ibushi homepage showing a smoke-darkened minka interior and the principle that a house is cured by being lived in.

Suntoku homepage featuring a hand-forged kitchen knife and the words “A blade is patience made visible.”

Aresta homepage placing the long west wall of the coastal hotel against grassland and the Atlantic at last light.

Nipis homepage featuring a translucent embroidered barong Tagalog.

Veta homepage showing a surfboard blank in the shaping bay and the statement that one line decides the whole board.

Velum homepage showing a short-field aircraft on a twilight alpine apron.

Tyri homepage showing a hand-hewn log yard in bright Norwegian snow.

Malmfuru homepage showing a glowing log house in a snowy Norwegian night.

Larès homepage presenting a mountain refuge above the tree line under a wide Dolomite sky.

Fornace alla Luna homepage with glowing furnace mouth and restrained nocturnal typography.

Sant’Agata homepage showing a finished violin under lamplight and the statement that eleven violins leave the bench each year.

Barchetta homepage introducing a Neapolitan tailoring doctrine.

Banaag homepage introducing a Pampanga jeepney body shop and its operator-led build system.

Auriga homepage showing a private aircraft on a twilight apron.

Rosée parfumeur homepage set in the fields of Grasse.