A Day at the Workshop on Rua do Breiner

Our workshop is two streets from the studio, so a sketch made in the morning can be a test joint on the bench before lunch.

The day starts with coffee and the cutting list. Rui walks through every piece with the makers, checks the timber that arrived the day before and decides which boards go where, so the grain runs the same way across a whole wall of doors. Then the saws start, and the studio upstairs gets quiet enough to draw.

In the afternoon we dry-fit what was made, take photos for the clients and fix anything that does not close perfectly. Nothing leaves the bench until it does.

A finished cabinet is a hundred small decisions, and we like to make all of them in the same room.