Made to order — Est. 2011
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Furniture made to be inherited.
Seating, tables, storage and lighting in solid timber, built one at a time in our own workshop.
(01) — Shop by kind
Four kinds of furniture.
The bench, Portland workshop
(03) — How it is made
Made slowly, on purpose.
Timber chosen by hand
We buy whole logs from two family sawmills and air-dry every board for at least two years before it is cut.
Joints cut, not screwed
Mortise and tenon, dovetail and through-wedge. Joints that tighten with age, where fixings would work loose.
Finished with oil
Hardwax oil soaks into the timber, so a scratch can be sanded and re-oiled at home in ten minutes.
Signed by its maker
One person builds each piece from first cut to final coat, and signs the underside when it leaves the bench.
(04) — Materials
Three materials, nothing hidden.
Hanna Lindqvist
Owner, Pirtti Dining Table
(07) — Journal
Notes from the bench.
Materials
How to tell solid timber from veneer
Four checks you can do in a showroom in under a minute, without tools.
Workshop
Why we still cut joints by hand
Machines are faster. Here is what they cannot do, and why it matters in year twenty.
Living
A dining table for the next forty years
Size, height, leg position and finish: the decisions that are hard to undo later.