A small workshop, made slowly
Atelier Kō is a two-person furniture workshop in Småland, Sweden. We design and build a small catalogue of seating, tables and storage — by hand, to order, in solid wood. No factory, no veneers, no rush.
We started with one chair
Atelier Kō began in a borrowed barn outside Växjö, with a single steam-bent ash chair — the piece that became the Arvid. Seven years later, we still work in solid wood only, still build to order, and still sign every piece on the underside before it leaves.
The catalogue is intentionally small. Six pieces, three timbers. We'd rather know a few things well than offer a hundred we don't.
How we work
Solid wood, always
No MDF, no veneer, no engineered cores. Every surface you see and touch is the same piece of wood, all the way through.
By hand, mostly
Machines mill and rough-cut. The joints, the surfaces and the finish are all worked by hand. It's slower. It shows.
Made to be repaired
Hard-wax oils and natural soap finishes can be re-applied at home. Joints are mechanical, not glued shut. Nothing is disposable.
"We don't buy lumber by the pallet. Every board is chosen for the piece it will become — sometimes months before it is cut."
European oak from managed Swedish forests. Curved ash from a small reserve on the south coast. American walnut from a family mill in Pennsylvania. Three woods. No more.
- Founded
- 2018
- Makers
- 02
- Timbers
- 03
- Weeks lead time
- 4–10