A family workshop. Five generations with wood.
My grandfather and father started this workshop in 1991, doing complicated wood projects for whoever needed them. Before them, my great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were miškininkai and eiguliai, Lithuanian foresters who spent their working lives among the trees. So wood has been the family job for five generations now.
My father and I run it together today. He spent most of his career building for Lithuanian clients, residential and commercial. I’ve been opening the workshop up to brands and architects in Scandinavia, the UK and further out in Europe. It’s the same shop, the same people, the same standards. Just a wider map.
Solid Lithuanian oak and ash. A family workshop. Furniture made for hotels, restaurants and design brands who want something that’ll still look right in ten years.
Five things, roughly in this order.
A family workshop, since 1991
My grandfather and father started it. My father and I run it together now. Five generations of the family have worked with wood, going back to foresters in the countryside. It’s not a story we made up for a website. It’s the only job we know.
Only Lithuanian oak and ash
Both come from forests here in Lithuania. The wood grows slower this far north, so it’s denser and harder than oak from further south. It costs more. It also lasts longer and ages better. We think that math works out.
We adapt to what you bring
One bench for a hotel lobby. Three hundred chairs a year for a brand. A full restaurant interior. The workshop is set up for all of it, and we don’t pretend one type of job is more interesting than another.
One person to call
From the first email to the crate landing on site, you talk to one of us. Cafés, restaurants, hotels, brand collections. We also help designers think through how a piece will actually live in the room, because we’ve seen what holds up and what doesn’t.
We want the second project too
Most of the brands we work with have stayed with us for years. That’s the thing we measure ourselves on, more than anything else.
The only material we’d want to build with.
Wood is the only structural material that grows back. Forests regrow, the carbon stays locked in the timber, and a well-built oak piece lasts a long time before it eventually returns to the soil.
For a family that’s worked with the forest for five generations, that’s not a sustainability story we put together for a website. It’s just the way we think about the work.
We want the second project, not just the first.
The way we set up prototyping, production and quality control is built around long relationships. Most of the brands we’ve worked with are still here years later. That’s the thing we’re trying to get right.
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