The Hearth Chair
The OriginalThe chair the film is about: a saddled solid-wood seat on wedged-tenon legs, made to be pulled up to fires, tables, and long conversations.
58 × 82 × 55 cm
Rs. 34,500
Heartwood
Every chair is asleep inside a tree.
Scroll at a walking pace. Over the next minute one standing oak will be felled, milled, rested, and joined into furniture — the same unhurried road every Heartwood piece walks.
01Chapter One · The Tree
It begins as sixty years of weather
Before it is furniture, it is a tree on a hillside — sixty rings, two droughts, one lightning summer. We build with all of it.
02Chapter Two · The Mill
Felled with intent, sawn with respect
One tree gives a dozen boards. We take it down ourselves, saw it in our own yard, and read the years in every ring before a single cut is planned.
03Chapter Three · The Craft
Joined, not glued together
Legs find their mortises. Stretchers brace like held breath. The board you watched come off the log is saddled by hand into a seat — no screws, nothing hidden, nothing hurried.
04Chapter Four · The Form
Stand back. Walk around it.
A chair must look right from the corner of a room and from the corner of an eye. Choose your wood below — oak, walnut, or smoked ash — and watch it drink the finish.
05Chapter Five · The Detail
Proudest of the joint you'll never see
This close, furniture becomes honesty: a wedged tenon, a saddled seat, an oiled edge your palm will find every morning for forty years.
06Chapter Six · The Home
One tree becomes a home
Out of the workshop, into the evening light — the chair, then the table, the sofa, the lamp gathering around it. Every piece in the room began on the same hillside.
From grain to grace — furniture that remembers the tree it was.
02The Workshop
Slow furniture from a fast century
Heartwood is eleven people, one saw-tooth-roofed workshop, and a woodpile we know tree by tree. We buy whole logs from managed forests, mill them ourselves, and let the boards rest for two years before a single cut — because wood, like people, behaves better when it isn't rushed. Every piece is joined the old way, finished with oil and wax you can renew with a rag, and signed underneath by the hands that made it. Nothing we build needs a manual; everything we build expects grandchildren.
03The Making
Four stations between the tree and your room
01
The Tree
We buy standing timber from managed forests we can walk to, and we take the whole log — the knots and the character with it.
02
The Rest
Boards sleep in our loft for two full years, stickered and patient, until they've forgotten the weather they grew in.
03
The Bench
One maker takes your piece from first pencil line to final wax. You'll get their name, and photographs of the grain before it's cut.
04
The Home
We deliver, place, and level it ourselves — then come back once a year, forever, if it ever needs us.
04The Workshop Floor
Try the wood before the wood arrives
Turn any piece on the bench, swap the finish, check the true dimensions against your doorway — then reserve it and we start milling.
White Oak
The Hearth Chair
Rs. 34,500The chair the film is about: a saddled solid-wood seat on wedged-tenon legs, made to be pulled up to fires, tables, and long conversations.
58 × 82 × 55 cm
- 01The wedged tenon
- The wedged tenonEach leg passes through the seat and is locked with a contrasting wedge — a joint that tightens with the seasons instead of loosening.
- 02The saddled seat
- The saddled seatScooped by travisher, by hand, until it holds you the way a path holds a stream.
- 03The oil & wax
- The oil & waxNo lacquer shell — just oil and beeswax, renewable with a rag on a Sunday. Scratches become story.
05The Pieces
Made to order, signed underneath
Every design below is cut from rested boards in the wood of your choice. Try any of them on the workshop floor above.
The Long Table
Book-matchedTwo book-matched boards from the same tree, breadboard ends, and room for every chair in the house. Seats eight; hosts twelve.
220 × 75 × 90 cm
Rs. 128,000
The Drift Sofa
A low oak frame carrying deep linen cushions — the nap-tested heart of the room. Covers unzip; the frame outlives them all.
210 × 78 × 92 cm
Rs. 165,000
The Ember Lamp
A turned-wood column with a paper shade that pools warm light exactly one book wide. The workshop's favourite overtime companion.
32 × 148 × 32 cm
Rs. 18,500
The Ledger Shelf
Five planks, two uprights, zero fasteners you can see. Holds the family library and doesn't wobble when the kids climb it — we checked.
90 × 180 × 30 cm
Rs. 56,000
The Meadow Bed
NewA floating platform on splayed legs, headboard soft-edged for late-night readers. Assembles with a mallet and one satisfying knock.
190 × 95 × 215 cm
Rs. 142,000
06Letters
Notes pinned to the workshop wall
“We watched the website build that chair out of a plank and thought: that's how I want our table made. Two years later it still smells faintly of beeswax when the sun hits it.”
“The maker sent a photo of the actual boards with pencil marks on them before cutting. My chairs have a biography.”
“Assembled with one mallet knock, exactly as promised. The joint tightened over the monsoon instead of creaking — my grandfather would have approved.”
07Fair Questions
Asked across the bench
How long does a piece take?
Stocked pieces ship in two weeks. Commissions take six to ten weeks depending on the season — the boards are already rested, but the bench doesn't rush. You'll receive photographs at every stage.
Where does the wood come from?
From managed community forests we visit ourselves, bought as whole logs and milled in our yard. Every piece can be traced to its log, and most to the hillside it grew on.
How do I care for an oil-and-wax finish?
Wipe spills when you see them, and once or twice a year rub in the small tin of wax we include. Scratches can be sanded and re-oiled at home — the finish is designed to be repaired, not replaced.
Can I change the wood or the size?
Yes — every design is made to order in oak, walnut, or smoked ash, and most can be scaled to your room. Send us a doorway measurement and we'll take it from there.
08The Visit
Come see the sawdust
The workshop is open to visitors most days — bring a doorway measurement, leave with wood samples and a fair quote.
Call the bench+977 1 443 2210
WhatsApp+977 9807654321
Write to usworkshop@heartwood.com.np
The workshopHeartwood Workshop, Bungamati Road, Lalitpur
One plank of yours is already resting in our loft.
Tell Heartwood the room, the light, and the life it needs to hold — the bench takes it from there.