The making, stage by stage
From green branch to finished table, a Haussmann piece passes through many hands over many months. Here is the making, one stage at a time.
Nothing here is rushed. A single table can spend the better part of a year moving from one bench to the next, and every stage leaves its mark on the wood. What follows is the journey a rain-tree branch takes on its way to becoming furniture.
Roughing out
While the wood is still green and heavy with sap, a carver blocks out the rough shape with a chainsaw, leaving generous material for the finish carvers who follow. It is loud, physical work — and the last time the piece will be touched in a hurry.
The long dry
The rough form then rests in a solar kiln for months, until the moisture held deep in the grain drops below twelve percent. Wood that dries too fast will check and split; wood that dries slowly settles into something that will hold its shape for decades.
Finishing by hand
Finish carvers refine the form with hand tools, reading the grain as they go. Then comes the oil — worked in by hand, coat over thin coat, across five to seven days, until the surface glows soft and matte. No two tables leave the bench quite alike: set any two of the twist end tables side by side and the grain tells a different story on each.
For the full journey from branch to finished piece, read how a branch becomes a table. Or see where it ends up — the double twist end tables and the wood benches.
The workshop, in motion
A few short films from the bench — the same pieces, shaped and oiled by hand.
