Photo engraving on stone

Alongside the laser, the workshop has added a diamond impact engraving machine, specialised in photorealistic reproduction on polished stone, up to 90 × 170 cm. Where the laser marks and cuts, this technology sculpts, point by point, every shade of grey in a photograph, until its full depth is restored.

The process works by percussion: thousands of micro-impacts from a diamond tip, their density and depth varying with the light and shadow of the original image. The result isn't engraving in the traditional sense — it's a portrait that seems to emerge from the stone itself, visible under certain angles of light like a photograph rediscovered within the material.

This technique extends naturally from our stoneworking expertise: at home in commemorative pieces as much as in more contemporary creations, wherever an image deserves to last as long as the stone that carries it.

What the photograph captures,
the stone keeps.