Sitwood

Sitwood

Sitwood is our woodworking line: dining tables, sideboards, consoles, cabinets, TV units and bookshelves, and the wooden coffee tables. The upholstered pieces sit under Sitdesign.

Three timbers, and they are three different pieces

Walnut is dark and strongly figured, and it makes a shaped or curved form read as sculpture. Oak is pale and open-grained, and the same piece becomes calm. Anigre sits between them — fine-grained, light, almost golden, and it lets a carving read as shadow rather than competing with it. On a carved or shaped front the choice matters more than on a flat one, because the grain runs across the relief. Choose the timber for the room, not for the shape; the shape does not change.

Grain is the thing to get right

The finish is applied by hand so the grain stays legible and continuous across the full run of a piece — which matters most on a sideboard, a dining table or a wall-length unit, where the timber is the largest single surface in the room. Veneer leaves are matched and laid in sequence; bought as separate panels they would not line up. On a four-door front the leaves have to run continuously across all four doors, and with a pale, open-grained timber there is nowhere to hide a mismatch.

Made to measure, which is the point

Several pieces here have no catalogue size at all — Myra dining tables, Papillon sideboards, Compasso, Loft and Moonlight are built to the wall or the room they are going into. For the rest, dimensions, the internal division, and the base are set with the order, and where a piece carries a repeating pattern or a carving, the layout is re-set with any change of width so the rhythm stays even. Send the clear wall width between obstructions, the height available, and the depth you can give up.

Metal, stone and leather where they earn it

Chrome inlaid flush into a pedestal base on Orbit, bronze-tone bracing on Topaz, brass uprights on the Lavor coffee table, a hand-stitched leather wrap on the conical base of Milano, marble on Stafero and on Myra. Where metal and wood meet along their full length they move differently with temperature and humidity, so the joint is detailed to allow it while the visible gap stays constant end to end.

Lead time

Wood pieces are typically ready in six to eight weeks; the exact lead time depends on the scope of the project. Every piece is assembled, sanded and finished by the same team in our Istanbul workshop, and nothing leaves before it has been checked by hand.