I build one-off pieces in solid wood for projects all over Switzerland.

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Schwarz-Weiss-Aufnahme: Handwerker bei der Detailarbeit an der Werkbank

At a glance

  • Machine-sawn and planed, joined by hand, built precisely to your drawings

  • Construction advice from someone who designs as well as builds

  • Hand-cut joints such as dovetails, mortise and tenon or kanawa tsugi. Strong, with no visible screws or fittings

  • Swiss wood from the Emmental: short haul, traceable back to the sawmill

  • Oiled, never lacquered: the wood still feels like wood and can be refreshed years later

  • One person from drawing to delivery, so nothing gets lost between design and workshop

References

Conference Table
Conference Table
Conference Table
Media Console with Projector
Media Console with Projector
Media Console with Projector
Bed
Bed
Bed
Bed
Sideboard with Display Cabinet
Sideboard with Display Cabinet
Beleuchtete Vitrine aus Nussbaumholz mit Glasfront für Kameraausrüstung
Sideboard with Display Cabinet
Sideboard with Display Cabinet
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
Coffee Table
Coffee Table
Coffee Table
Coffee Table

Working together

1. First meeting

2. Plans and samples

3. Quote

4. Making

5. Regular updates

6. Delivery and installation

Consulting

Most woodworking workshops come in once the drawings are finished. They receive shop drawings and build what's on the page.

I like to join one step earlier and develop the design with you.

How do you make a solid oak sideboard look light? How can a mechanism become more elegant? What thickness will span that length without sagging over the years? Which joint looks right and still carries the load?

These questions are best answered before the details are fixed. So send me your drawings, even if they're not finished.

Schnitzwerkzeuge auf einer Eichenholz-Werkbank

«Each tree, each part of the tree, has its own particular destiny.»

– George Nakashima
Konferenztisch aus Eiche mit schwarzen Stühlen unter einer Holzbalkendecke

Send me a design you're working on right now. I'll tell you whether it works in solid wood, where the tricky details are, and roughly what it would cost. It's free, and there's no obligation to order.

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About me

Nattha hobelt von Hand eine Massivholzplatte in der Werkstatt

In a small workshop in Bern, I turn wood from the Emmental into furniture for projects all over Switzerland.

A tree takes decades to grow, and I try to work its wood with that in mind. The machines do the sawing and the heavy planing. Every joint I cut by hand.

The result is a piece that could only have been made for that one room.

I think every room deserves one piece like that.

Nattha Khamso
Nattha Khamso

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