About
A marble workshop in Tajganj, run by Arshan.
Four centuries after the Taj Mahal was finished, the lanes behind it are still full of people who cut stone for a living. We are one of those workshops.
The work
We make objects, not surfaces.
Most "marble" sold today is a thin layer on something else — a printed laminate, a composite slab, a veneer glued to board. It photographs well and it does not last. Everything we make is cut from a solid block, which is why a chess board has weight in the hand and a table leg reads as stone from every angle.
The range runs from a coaster to a dining table: chess sets, platters, side tables, bowls, candle holders, chopping boards, coasters, and commissions drawn to a customer's own measurement.
Stone comes from the blocks we can source and inspect — Calacatta Viola, Levanto, onyx, travertine, black and white marble, and the burgundy and beige stones that suit warmer rooms. What we can get changes; what we tell you about it does not.
“The stone decides half the piece. Our job is not to fight it — it is to cut so the vein lands where it should.”
Arshan · Proprietor
How we work
Eight things you can hold us to.
Solid stone, never veneer
Every piece is cut from a real block — not stone-look composite, not a printed surface.
Cut and finished by hand
Turned, carved, inlaid and polished in our own workshop in Tajganj, Agra.
Stone chosen piece by piece
Blocks are picked for vein and soundness before any cutting begins.
Made to your dimensions
Tables, boards and panels made to the size your room actually needs.
Bulk & corporate orders
Gifting, hospitality and retail quantities, quoted with realistic lead times.
Domestic & international
Enquiries welcome from anywhere; shipping quoted per destination.
Packed to arrive intact
Individually cushioned and crated where size or weight requires it.
You deal with Arshan
One person accountable from first enquiry to dispatch — not a call centre.
Where we are
Tajganj, Agra.
Tajganj is the quarter that grew around the Taj Mahal, and inlay work — stone set into stone, polished flush — has been its trade ever since. Our coaster and chess board inlay comes straight out of that tradition; the tables and bowls are a contemporary use of the same skills.
Visitors are welcome, but call first — the workshop is working, and the lanes are easier with directions.
Bespoke
Commission something of your own.
A size that fits your room, a stone you have chosen, a piece made only once. Tell us what you have in mind.
