About

Lomāe is a small New Zealand studio that designs sculptural stone objects for considered homes. Vessels, vases, bowls, and weights, hand-carved from Spanish alabaster, Italian and Turkish travertine, and Spanish marble.

Why Lomāe exists

We are a husband-and-wife team based in Bombay, south of Auckland. One of us has spent fifteen years building businesses, with a long-running interest in natural stone and the way considered objects change a room. The other is a designer who could not find pieces for our own home in the wabi-sabi and Japandi language we kept coming back to, at prices that did not require treating each object as an investment.

The category, as we kept finding it, splits two ways. At the high end, gallery-priced stone objects sit between six hundred and two thousand dollars apiece. At the low end, mass-produced stone homewares look the part but are usually resin-and-aggregate composites, machine-finished, with no relationship to the material they imitate. There is very little in the middle.

We started Lomāe to make pieces that sit in that middle. Real stone, hand-carved, in the design language we wanted, at prices that put them within reach of someone furnishing a first home or specifying for a project.

What we make

We work in six stones: Spanish alabaster, Crema Marfil marble, three varieties of travertine (beige, yellow, and silver grey), and Calacatta Viola. Each does something different. Alabaster glows. Marble holds line. Travertine carries texture. We use each one for the pieces it suits, and we have written the full material story on the Materials page.

The forms are quiet. Vessels with thick walls. Bowls with irregular edges. Weights that read more like sculpture than like objects. Where a piece has detail, the detail comes from the carving and the cut, not from anything applied afterwards.

We release pieces in small drops, three times a year. Each drop is limited, and each piece is committed to a buyer before it is made.

The design language

Two ideas sit underneath every Lomāe piece.

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, asymmetry, and the marks of time. In our work it shows up in the irregular edge of a bowl, the visible pores in travertine, the way a piece of Crema Marfil from one block reads slightly different from the same piece carved from another. We do not hide variation. We design with it.

Japandi is the more recent meeting of Japanese restraint and Scandinavian form. It is the reason our pieces lean simple, structural, and quiet. A room that holds Lomāe is a room that is already considered. The piece does not fight for attention; it earns the space it is given.

Wabi-sabi alone, badly done, becomes rustic. Japandi alone, badly done, becomes cold. Together, done well, they describe pieces that feel both grounded and resolved.

How we work

Pieces are designed in Bombay and hand-carved by our manufacturing partner. We work with one partner because the relationship matters. Stone work is not industrial. The same block, given to two different workshops, produces two different pieces. We have spent the time it takes to build a working language with our partner. They know our pieces and the finishes we expect.

Every piece is inspected before it ships and again when it arrives. Pieces with hairline cracks, unacceptable defects, or veining that pulls a piece away from its intended character are rejected. The rejection rate runs between five and fifteen percent of a production run depending on the material. That cost is built into the price of the pieces we keep.

What we stand for

Real stone, named honestly. No composites, no resin, no stone-look. Where a stone has a protected trade name (Crema Marfil, Calacatta Viola), we verify origin at the block level. Where a stone is described by family (travertine, alabaster), we name the most likely origin region and acknowledge that exact block origin can vary.

Small drops, by intent. Three releases a year. Limited production per piece. Each piece committed to a buyer before we make it.

Two people. We answer our own emails. We pack our own orders. If you talk to us, you are talking to us.

Get in touch

If you are buying for your home, the Collection 01 page is the place to start. If you are specifying for a project, we can provide block origin information, dimensional drawings, and material samples on request to qualified trade. Email hello@lomaehome.com.

Drop 01 opens spring 2026. To know when a drop opens, add your email to the list. We send a short note when there is something new, and not at any other time.