Est. 2017 — Workshop Seventeen
Seating · Tables · Lighting · Storage
Objects built to outlast us
Seventeen pieces a year. Each one cut, joined and finished by a single maker — then signed, numbered and sent out to be used hard.
17
Objects in production
4
Weeks per chair
11
Benches in the workshop
2017
Year one
01 — Object study
Turn it over
Most furniture is designed to be seen from the front. We design from underneath — the joint you never look at is the one that decides whether a chair survives a decade of being dragged across a floor.
Material
Steam-bent oak
Joint
Hand-cut mortise
Finish
Hard-wax oil
Maker
One bench, four weeks
02 — In production
This year’s objects
03 — Materials · drag the samples
Six things we buy
01
Oak
Jura, France
Steam-bent, hard-wax oiled
02
Ash
Sauerland, Germany
Kiln-dried 14 months
03
Walnut
Piedmont, Italy
Book-matched panels
04
Blackened steel
Ruhr, Germany
Hand-patinated
05
Travertine
Tivoli, Italy
Honed, unfilled
06
Bouclé
Yorkshire, UK
Undyed worsted wool
04 — The workshop
A joint cut by hand tells you what the wood is about to do.
Eleven benches, two steam kilns, no assembly line. One maker takes a piece from rough stock to finish, which is slower, more expensive, and the only method we have ever used.
05 — Journal
