Forty hours, one piece
A Patara piece leaves the bench after an average of forty working hours. This page shows how those hours are spent.
The atelier is not a room behind the shop. It is the brand.
In our Antalya atelier every piece stays in one building, from the design board to the final polish. Casting, setting, polishing and inspection happen at neighbouring benches — a ring does not leave the atelier unfinished.
At the bench
The bench
The raw form is taken down with a file and brought to size. The wear on the bench pin is the mark of every piece worked on it.
The work
A rotary handpiece opens the seat the stone will sit in. A second of inattention here undoes all forty hours.
The polish
The piece is held against the felt wheel. How the surface holds light is decided here; before this, nothing is bright.
The last look
Every piece is looked at once more in front of the craftsman who made it. What does not pass goes back.
One room, side by side
Every stage from design to final inspection happens in a single hall, at benches within sight of each other. A piece never leaves the building: the setter finds the polisher two steps away, and the answer to a question is a glance rather than an email. The room holds a memory, too — a piece that comes back for care years later returns to the benches it was made on.
At the end of forty hours
The piece in your hand passed through this room and these hands. To see the collections: