Home/Workshop
Open Tuesday to Saturday
Made in Porto
- Walnut from
- Douro valley
- Felt from
- Serra da Estrela
- Time per chair
- Nine working days
How a chair is made
Our walnut comes from two farms in the Douro valley and is air-dried at the sawmill in Peso da Régua for two years. The felt is woven and fulled from Bordaleira wool at a mill in Serra da Estrela.
We make chairs in batches of twelve. Each one is cut, joined, sanded and oiled by the same person, then upholstered in the next room. That takes nine working days, which is why a chair reaches you about three weeks after you order it.
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01
Cut
Each part is cut from one board, so the grain runs on from the arm into the leg.
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02
Join
Mortise and tenon joints, glued and pinned with walnut dowels. Nothing is screwed.
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03
Oil
Sanded to 240 and given three coats of hard wax oil, a day apart.
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04
Upholster
Cane webbing is pressed into the seat and back, then the cushions are cut and sewn for that frame.
Visit
Sit in one first
The showroom is at the front of the workshop. Every chair and both felts are there to try, and you can watch the bench through the glass.
- Address
- Rua de Cedofeita 412, 4050-174 Porto
- Tuesday to Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 14:00
- Workshop tour
- First Saturday of the month, 11:00
- Getting here
- Lapa metro, five minutes' walk