A client opening a Mediterranean restaurant chose a Lamassu — the human-headed winged guardian of 9th-to-7th-century-BC Assyria — as the signature piece of the space, and needed something their sculptors could actually work from.
The challenge
Photographs flatten exactly the details a sculptor needs: the beard’s bead rows, the layered wing feathers, the scale pattern across the body. The commission called for a physical reference, dimensionally faithful and scaled so the crew could measure directly from it.
Our approach
We located a 3D model of the historical sculpture and rescaled it to the client’s dimensions, then printed it in resin on a large-format SLA machine. SLA was the deliberate choice here: the process resolves the fine relief — bead rows, feather edges, the curl pattern of the beard — crisply enough to measure against.
- Sourced and prepared a 3D model of the historical piece
- Rescaled geometry to the commission dimensions
- Large-format SLA resin print for maximum surface fidelity
The outcome
The client’s sculptors received a sharp, scaled guardian to guide the full-size replica — every detail present and proportioned, ready to be measured, sectioned, and copied.
It is the same workflow we use for engineering first articles, pointed at a 3,000-year-old design brief.
