Nomi means chisel. A wedge of steel with a handle on it, almost unchanged in thousands of years. Its purpose: take away to create form.
It doesn’t give anything back. Every cut is final, and that changes every decision the craftsmen take. They look for longer, read the grain and the light — not out of caution, but because the decision has to be finished before the mallet moves.
Buildings are no different. They arrive holding a shape — their proportions, their light, what they were built for. The work is seeing what is there, then having the nerve to take away everything that isn’t.
Our work
Rooms are easy. Convincing them is the work.Every space arrives with a fixed idea of what it can be. You can only overrule that once you’ve understood it — so we read first, and then we commit.
Nomi means chisel. のみ
Berkshire studio. UK and international.
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