The workshop

Four people, two benches and a stack of numbered beams in a stone barn below Bonnieux.

From beam to piece

We buy the beam
From barns, mills and farmhouses being rebuilt around the Luberon. We write down what it held up and when the building went up.
We number it
Each beam gets a number painted on its end. That number follows every offcut until the last piece is made.
We pull the nails and rest it
Old nails come out by hand. The beam rests in the workshop for six weeks so it settles to the room.
We cut and join
Pieces are marked out around the checks and nail holes worth keeping. Joints are cut, glued and pegged with oak pegs.
We oil and brand it
Two coats of linseed oil and beeswax. Then the beam number, year and village are burnt into the underside.
Two of us deliver it
In the week you chose, carried to the room you want it in.

Each piece in the collection comes from one of these beams. Demo data.

Every beam in the current range
Beam	Year	Village	Held up	Became
0355	1858	Ménerbes	the ridge of a silk farm	Ménerbes table
0371	1862	Lourmarin	a mill lintel	Lourmarin bench
0360	1869	Apt	a candied-fruit warehouse	Apt sideboard
0412	1874	Bonnieux	a barn roof above the lavender drying floor	Banon chair
0402	1877	Cucuron	the roof of an olive press	Cucuron armchair
0419	1880	Lacoste	a stable door frame	Lacoste side table
0388	1891	Goult	the floor of a hayloft	Gordes stool
0430	1897	Saignon	a bakery shelf	Saignon shelf

The workshop is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays, by appointment. Bring the measurements of your room.