France 2011

We design, draw and build each piece.

From first line to final weight. Always personal.

Some stories stay with you.

Not because they were perfect, but because they were real.

In 2011, this table began as a conversation. A long monastery table, four meters in length, conceived for a house in the French countryside. It started the way all our pieces do: with listening, drawing, adjusting proportions, and carefully deciding what truly matters.

Model: Porter 

Dimensions: 400 × 100 × 76 cm

Tabletop: 4 solid planks

Material: grey oak and raw oak

Weight: approx. 280 kg

Every line was drawn with intention. Every choice discussed. The scale mattered. The weight mattered. The way the table would live in the space mattered.

What we treasure most today is not only the object, but everything around it.

The emails written late at night.

The patience while finishes dried — because quality could not be rushed.

The practical reality of weight, access, transport, and timing.

And finally, the delivery. Not by our trusted transport company, but by father and son.

Geert and his father left early in the morning, after rush hour, driving from Belgium to Lailly-en-Val. The table travelled in parts — top and legs separated — because it was simply too heavy otherwise. Upon arrival, it was assembled and installed with care, on site, by the same hands that had made it.

A long day. A heavy table. A quiet satisfaction.

"This table is beautiful," the client wrote at the time.

It gives us energy. It reminds us why we do what we do.

— not because of how it looks, but because of how it came into being.

This is what design and build means to us. No distance between idea and execution. No separation between drawing and making. And above all: a personal commitment, from the first sketch to the final placement.

Some pieces are more than furniture.

They become memories.

And those are the ones we truly treasure. 🤎

The grain between connects us.