Natural Stone Creative Engineer | Vancouver

I translate the memory of ancient earth into permanent emotional form.

The Work

Selected Works

A range across stone, scale, and collaboration.

✨ Where This Began

At eight years old, in a stone factory in Tehran, I picked up a handful of offcuts no one wanted and arranged them into a mandala. No one asked me to. The material simply seemed to want to become something.I studied mining engineering to understand stone at a molecular level — what pressure it survived, what it carries in its veins. By 2013 I had my own company. Over the next decade: 250+ projects across the Middle East and Europe.In 2022 I moved to Vancouver, and the land asked a different question — not what can I build, but how do I create here, honestly. Before any collaboration began, I asked an Indigenous oracle named Rosie whether I had permission to work on this land. Her answer: 'No one owns the land. The land owns us.'That answer became the foundation for everything that follows.

Three Principles
behind every project

I - Stone Carries Time

Material formed over millions of years outlasts everyone involved in making it. That weight shapes every decision — what gets made, where it's placed, what it represents.

II - Material as Memory

A building can hold more than function. When stone carries a visual language rooted in land and people, it becomes a form of memory — telling future generations whose land they stand on.

III - Art and Architecture, Considered Together

The strongest work happens when material and cultural voice are part of a project from the start, not added at the end. The result feels inevitable, not decorative.

Luxury is not excess. Luxury is intentionality, permanence, and emotional resonance.

Echoes in Stone: Black & Gold

Ten works, created with First Nations artists, translating Indigenous visuals into golden travertine and black marble. Two ancient traditions, meeting in a material that neither civilization made — but both understand.
Created in collaboration with John Velten, Chris Sparrow, Trevor Angus, and Kolten Grant.

Sacred Walls

My current work centers on sculptural stone pieces — one-of-a-kind walls and objects created in alignment with the space and the person they're for. Not designs. Something closer to presence made physical.
Each piece is hand-selected and carved with intention, never repeated. Some belong to evolving collections. Others are private commissions — walls for meditation rooms, altars, sanctuaries, or simply to bring stillness into a space.
Stone becomes stillness.

Let's Talk

If this work speaks to your project, your space, or your collection, I'd like to hear from you.

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