Portland, Oregon · Est. 2011

Furniture that
remembers
the tree it came from.

Elin Bjornstad builds solid-wood furniture using reclaimed and locally milled timber — every plank hand-selected, every joint cut, no shortcuts through a machine that could feel it.

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Woodworker carving a piece of wood with a chisel In the shop — hand-cut joinery

Selected work

A run of recent commissions — each tag lists the species, the dimensions, and the year it left the shop.

Wooden dining table with chairs

The Willamette Table

Live-edge walnut84″ × 38″2025
Handmade wooden stool

Three-Leg Stool

White oak18″ H2024
Wooden cabinet against a white wall

Dovetail Cabinet

Cherry30″ × 42″2024
Wooden chair against a white wall

Bent-Back Chair, No. 4

Steam-bent ashSet of two2023
Floating wooden shelf

Floating Shelf Set

Maple3 units2025
Detail of carved wood surface

Keepsake Box

Walnut & brass12″ × 8″2025
Philosophy
"I don't design a piece and then go find wood for it. The board tells me what it wants to be — a knot, a split, a curve in the grain. My job is mostly listening, then getting out of the way with a sharp chisel."
— Elin Bjornstad

How a piece gets made

Three stages, always in this order — a slab doesn't forgive skipping one.

01 / Select

Read the board

Every slab is walked around, sighted for grain and tension, before it earns a place in the shop.

02 / Join

Cut by hand

Mortise, tenon, dovetail — cut with hand tools first, machines only where the joint won't show.

03 / Finish

Oil, not lacquer

Hardwax oil finishes that age with the piece instead of sealing it away from the room.

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