Works of masters
What people build with these tools
Furniture
A table from historic oak
When something good gets better, it gets close to perfect — like the table built on a base of two-hundred-year-old oak. The joiner didn't make it for his client; the client made it himself, under guidance.
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Six weeks from the first cut to the final coat. The joiner walks through the tricky part — a curved string that had to be right first time.
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Interiors
Seamless flooring in a former church
They can't walk on water — but that's close to what it looks like when a team pours a seamless floor into a nave. The result hides an enormous amount of preparation.
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One-offs
When craftsmanship gives hope
Can a wheelchair be made of wood? For a small workshop in Lviv that stopped being a theoretical question some time ago — and what came out of it restores rather more than mobility.
Read more: When craftsmanship gives hopeSurfboards shaped by hand
A visit to a workshop where every board is shaped, sanded and finished by hand — and where a sander with proper extraction is the difference between a good week and a lost one.
Read more: Surfboards shaped by handWheelchairs made of wood
A workshop project that turned into something else entirely: lightweight frames built from laminated timber, made to be repaired anywhere.
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