Costa Rica · The atelier behind Makanda by the Sea
Spaces, objects & art.
The hands that built Makanda by the Sea, Árbol and Shanti Spa: the pavilions, the carvings, the steel, the furniture, the websites. You can go and touch the proof.
Made by hand
Not a showroom.
A working hotel.
Twelve pieces from Makanda, Árbol and Shanti Spa, carved, welded and set in place by one pair of hands. In use by guests tonight. Nothing outsourced, nothing from a catalogue.
Selected work
Five places
we still answer for.
Four crafts
Two pairs of hands,
four crafts.
One of us plans, designs and runs the hotel. The other carves, welds and builds. A few commissions a year, by request, no price list.
Digital
Websites for hotels, villas and restaurants, by people who run one and sell its rooms through a site they built themselves.
Structures
Pergolas, pavilions, decks, outdoor kitchens, gates and railings. Steel and hardwood, welded and joined here, sized for salt air and the rainy season.
Carving & sculpture
Wall panels, doors, sculpture in wood and steel, cut by one pair of hands in Manuel Antonio. No two alike, each drawn for its wall.
Furniture & objects
Beds, desks, tables and vanities built here to your drawings or ours. Lighting and objects we cannot make, we source abroad. Delivered, set, levelled, done.
Makanda by the Sea · Manuel Antonio
A whole hotel,
by hand.
Start a project
Let's build
your future.
Show us the place.
A photo, a plan, a link or one line is enough. We take on a few commissions a year and reply ourselves.