Why we exist.
For decades, the natural-stone market has been built on a chain that hides the maker: quarry → wholesaler → importer → showroom → retailer. By the time a vessel sink reaches an American customer, it's been marked up four or five times, and nobody on the receiving end knows who carved it or where it came from.
We thought that was a strange way to sell something that's been pulled from the earth and shaped by hand. So we built BASINCRAFT to compress the chain to two steps: our atelier and your home.
Where the stone comes from.
Our raw materials are sourced from quarries in Türkiye (travertine, limestone, basalt, Turkish marble) and Italy (Carrara, Calacatta, Statuario marble). We've visited every quarry we buy from and select slabs personally — looking at veining, density, color consistency, and structural integrity before anything is cut.
Travertine from Denizli, the city our atelier sits in, is some of the best in the world. The Greeks and Romans used it 2,000 years ago — the same beds we work with today. Carrara and Calacatta marble come from the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, the same quarries that supplied Michelangelo.
How it's made.
Every BASINCRAFT piece is carved by hand from a single block of natural stone. A craftsperson — usually one of our master carvers with 20+ years experience — starts with the slab and works the form: roughing out the shape, refining the geometry, sanding the surface, polishing or honing the finish, drilling drain and faucet holes to the exact spec.
A typical vessel sink takes 14–18 hours of skilled labor. A freestanding bathtub takes 4–6 weeks across several craftspeople. Every piece is inspected personally by Bedrettin, our atelier lead, before it's packed and shipped.
Who runs it.
BASINCRAFT is led by Yasin Bozkurt (US operations, Connecticut) and Bedrettin (atelier operations, Denizli). The company operates as Ashgray LLC, registered in Connecticut, with US customer support based in Farmington, CT.
That's the team you'll talk to when you email or call. Not a chatbot. Not a ticket queue. A real person on our Connecticut team responds within 4 hours, Monday through Friday.
What's next.
We're a small team building this carefully. The product catalog grows when we find slabs worth carving and customers worth serving. If you're working on a project we'd be proud of, get in touch.