Workshop Stories

Una clienta nos escribió disgustada: había comprado una cómoda del XIX y en su salón "se veía rara". La cómoda era perfecta. El problema era todo lo demás. Combinar antiguo...

A customer lost an entire Saturday scouring Madrid for an antique chest of drawers. They came back without one—and found it that night from the sofa. This is the honest...

"But the nightstand isn't worth that." What it's worth isn't the furniture: it's the hours of a trade that has almost disappeared. We publish what almost no one publishes: what...

A client wanted to strip her grandmother's walnut dresser to lighten the wood, like on Pinterest. We told her no. Stripped wood is trendy and we love it, but there...

Some "antique" furniture is younger than your washing machine. In our workshop, we don't need certificates to know this; we just turn over a drawer. These are the 7 signs...

Blue is the favorite color of more people in the world than any other. For centuries, it was the most expensive pigment available, reserved for the Virgin Mary's mantle. Today,...

Our most veteran restorer has been working with wood for forty-eight years. He started at fourteen. I asked him if he knew any young people learning the trade. He laughed,...

A client wrote to me looking for a vintage piece of furniture. I asked him what he had in mind and he sent me a photo of a 19th-century walnut...

In 2011, 1,600 students took days to assemble the world's largest jigsaw puzzle: 551,232 pieces, with the image facing them. An 18th-century cabinetmaker did something more difficult: thousands of hand-cut...

There was a time when it seemed that to have an elegant home, you had to live with very little. Fortunately, extreme minimalism is dead. In 2026, true luxury is...

In 1434, Jan van Eyck painted a five-centimeter mirror in which he reflected an entire room. Six hundred years later, it is still the most striking thing about the painting....

Homes change because we change. We go from looking for practical furniture to furniture that can withstand bumps, until one day the house falls silent. That's when priorities change. You...