plonc. Studio is refining how it works. This is not a change in direction. It is a return to first principles.

We began as a studio interested in how surfaces shape experience. How material is registered by the body before it is named by language. How weight, relief, fracture, and texture influence movement, pause, and inhabitation. These concerns have never been about volume or trend. They have always required time, control, and proximity to making.

As the studio has grown, it has become necessary to reassess how our work is produced, specified, and sustained.

Not everything should be made continuously.

Not everything should remain available indefinitely.

Not every surface deserves repetition.

plonc. Studio is re-centring its work around selective making and authored surfaces. This means focusing on fewer works, developed with greater clarity, and produced under conditions that protect intent rather than dilute it. Some designs will remain in circulation. Others will rest. New work will emerge through research, prototyping, and direct collaboration rather than catalogue expansion.

This approach reflects how studios operate. A studio does not measure relevance by output alone. It measures it by coherence.

We are not interested in producing surfaces that behave like images. Our work is grounded in material consequence. Tile carries compression. Relief carries shadow. Timber carries absorption. These are not stylistic choices, but material realities that shape how space is felt over time.

Presence, in this context, is not a promise of endless supply. It is an outcome of alignment.

During this period, plonc. Studio continues to design, build, and publish. Built work remains central. Collaboration remains essential. What changes is the pace and the selectivity with which new surfaces enter the world.

This is a quiet adjustment, not a withdrawal.

We believe that authorship matters in material practice. That surfaces should be defended from overuse. And that restraint is sometimes the most responsible position a studio can take.

plonc. Studio remains committed to continuity over churn, depth over novelty, and work that earns its place through use rather than exposure.