What's the Difference Between Furniture and Fitted Joinery? The confusion is common, and understandable. These two practices (along with carpentry) share the same materials, the same machines, sometimes the same gestures. Yet they are two distinct specialities, each complete and complex in its own way. Neither is more noble or more difficult than the other. They simply answer different needs. Two Relationships to the Building What fundamentally distinguishes these practices i

Oreka, an Upcycled Wood Rocking Stool — Bidart, Basque Country Oreka was born in 2016 in Quentin Delion's workshop in Bidart, out of a personal urge rather than a precise brief. The original idea was a rocking chair. The space available at the time, a small apartment, decided otherwise. The project was rethought at a smaller scale: a rocking stool, whose Basque name means balance, keeping the chair's motion without its bulk. The seat is made of solid wood slats, carried by a

Children's chair in red cedar, vernacular tradition The stick chair emerged in rural Ireland and England starting in the 17th century, before being exported to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Crafted by rural artisans using available materials and simple hand tools, this popular traditional form is the direct precursor to Windsor chairs. Its structure, built on robust through-joinery, has crossed centuries without major formal change. The Lost Art Press

2023 — Unique piece — 1000 x 380 x 620 mm Some pieces are born without a client and without urgency. This one from a desire to freely explore techniques, stains and materials, and to see if everything could hold together. The golden ratio as a starting point 1,618 is the golden ratio, the mathematical proportion found in nature, architecture and design for centuries. It defined the three dimensions of this buffet: 1000 mm in length, 620 mm in height, 380 mm in depth. The valu

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Between chair and armchair GOWA was born from a precise brief: several armchairs for the waiting room of a law firm. Durability, comfort, welcoming silhouette — three constraints that guided every design decision. The formal approach is one of continuity. The backrest describes a half-circle that becomes an armrest, without any break in line. An organic geometry that softens the structure without weakening its presence. Solid wood answers this requirement: a material that liv

Council chamber furniture Designing furniture for a town council chamber is not simply a matter of making tables and chairs. It begins with research — understanding a city's history, its styles, its architectural references — before proposing something that continues that legacy without repeating it. In 2024, the Mairie de Biarritz invited several companies to tender for the supply of furniture for its council chamber. Thomas Longuefosse and I were selected for the tables. We

Les cornes Ada Rack starts from an accumulation of wood pieces, too beautiful for the fire and too short to be used in bespoke furniture. From these offcuts comes a wall-mounted surfboard rack, designed and made in Bidart, Basque Country. The object is made of two solid wood parts. A block fixed to the wall by dovetail joint, a system invisible once in place. A steam-bent curve that holds the rail of the board. The assembly is designed to be done by the user: the dovetail sli

Luminaire AON is born from the meeting of two practices: woodturning and additive manufacturing. The base is turned from solid wood in Bidart, Basque Country, in black lacquered ash or oiled natural beech depending on the version. The lampshade is printed in PLA by PRZ, a responsible 3D design studio based in Anglet, whose local production approach naturally complements that of the wood. Two techniques, two materials, one object. The PLA texture reveals itself in light. The p