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Studio Royal Art

Where craft becomes art

Ornament, sculpture and fountains, made by hand in Lahore.

Portico of a country house, Islamabad

Shahid Hussain finishing a figure in the studio
A young Shahid Hussain with a clay model

A studio handed down

Nazir Hussain, a Mayo School of Art graduate, was an art director and ornament modeller for Pakistani film in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1980s he and his son, the sculptor Shahid Hussain, founded the studio.

Today it is run by Shahzad Hussain and Adil Hussain, the next generation of the family craft.

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Art, Design & Craftsmanship - Beyond the Ordinary.

For 35 years and more, Shahid Hussain’s studio has modelled, cast and installed classical ornament across Pakistan.

Columns and cornices, fountains and fireplaces, portrait reliefs and garden statuary. Each piece is drawn for its place, modelled by hand in our Lahore workshop and finished on site by our own team.

We work with homeowners, architects and interior designers, from a single urn for a terrace to the complete ornament of a country house.

Urns and vases in warm evening light in the workshop yard
Our workshop yard, Lahore
Classical columns and entrance
Arched door surround with caryatids
Classical columns and entrance: Far From the madding crowd
Arched garden gateway, Lake City, Lahore
Classical stone fountain: Tranquility crowned with a colossal fountain
Lattice urn crowning a fountain, country house

From drawing to stone

  1. Design

    We start from your drawings, a photograph or a visit. Shahid Hussain sketches the piece to your space and scale.

  2. Make

    Every mould is modelled by hand in our Lahore workshop, then cast in stone finish, resin, fibreglass or plaster.

  3. Install

    Our own team fixes and finishes the work on site, from a single fountain to a full facade.

Custom work, restoration and installation
Design drawing by Studio Royal Art
Design drawing by Studio Royal Art

The collections

Eight kinds of work, from a single urn to a whole facade.

See the pieces in person

Photographs only go so far with stone. Walk among the urns, fountains and statuary, feel the finishes, and talk through sizes with the people who make them.

St #66, U Block, DHA Phase 7Near Carrefour, facing Barki RoadLahore 54000, Pakistan

Selected projects

A classical farmhouse

Punjab

A full ornament package: Corinthian colonnade, balustraded roofline, coffered ceilings, cornices and staircase newels, all made and fixed by the studio.

Reviving Greek ruins

A garden folly built as a ruin: fluted columns, a curved entablature and broken shafts set against a mosaic wall.

Sana Safinaz boutique

Lahore

Sculpted arches, niches and garment frames for the fashion house's flagship, made to sit with the clothes rather than compete with them.

Trusted by architects and designers

  • Arif Yazdani & AssociatesArchitects, Lahore
  • Martin Brudnizki Design StudioInterior design, London
  • Sana SafinazFashion house
  • StyloFashion and footwear
  • Nishat GroupHotels and retail
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Tell us about your space

Send a photo or drawing on WhatsApp, or tell us your idea in the quote form. We’ll reply with options and a price.