Every piece is cut from solid timber in a Cape Town workshop, to the size your room actually is. Not flat packed, not veneered, not waiting in a warehouse for someone to order it.
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Cut to the outline of the continent in solid oak or teak, 20mm thick, finished food safe. It started as an offcut experiment and turned into the piece people ask about first.
Because each one is cut from a single board, the grain runs differently through every piece. No two are the same, and none of them can be.
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What goes into a piece matters as much as what you see on the outside. No veneer over chipboard. No filler under a finish that hides more than it shows.
We work in solid oak, European ash, kiaat, iroko, African mahogany, beech and blackwood, one piece at a time, to the size you actually need. It is slower and it costs more, and it is the reason your piece will still be here in twenty years.
Read more about the workshopHow it is made
Every piece is cut, joined and finished in a single small workshop in Cape Town. Not a production line, not a container from overseas.
The timber is bought rough sawn and stacked to settle before a blade touches it. Wood that is rushed moves later, and a table that twists in its first summer is nobody's idea of an heirloom.
Inside the workshop
Cape Town, cut in
The hook rail and key rack are cut to the actual skyline of the mountain, in solid oak and kiaat with forged or brass hooks.
The same profile runs through the range, at hallway length or shorter for keys by the door.
See the wall range
There is only so much a screen can tell you.
So ask. Send us the room, the rough size, the timber you had in mind, and you will get an answer from the person who will actually build it. Not a sales desk, not a form that goes nowhere.
Once it is under way we send progress photos from the bench, so you watch your piece being made rather than wondering.
Measured our alcove to the millimetre and the table fits like it was built into the house. Because it was.
Ordered three plinths for a shop display. Quoted on the Monday, delivered the following week.
The blackwood board is the nicest thing in our kitchen. Already bought two more as gifts.
A short note when something new comes out of the workshop. No more than once a month, and never your details anywhere else.
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