Polhavn Woodfabrik
is an atelier designing and creating custom, handcarved wood pieces. Objects
crafted range from signs and furniture to artistic decoration and sculpture.
Specialities include rustic furniture from the Alaskan forest to foreign-style
folkcrafts. Select -quality local white spruce and paper birch, supplemented
with alder, aspen and willow, are featured. Many works are executed in basswood
and pine since Philip Marshall, the owner and woodcarver, has been trained
in the European tradition using these woods. He uses hand gouges and chisels
with a mallet in the Swiss-German style.
We invite you
to peruse our image gallery on this introductory page and in the subsections
noted in the lefthand margin. If you do not see want you want, we welcome
enquiries through the addresses at the bottom of the page. We can help in
the design, choice of materials, size, and finish (and installation, if
local), then provide a timeline and pricing, including shipping.
Image Gallery
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“Treekonasana, #1” Birch Armchair. Rare,
naturally-grown tree spawns this innovative design enhanced with block,
mortise & peg, scribed and screwed joinery. Between harvest and seasoning
is a year for the dramatic spalting to occur; then it is debarked prior
to two more years' curing before it is dried enough for working. Finish
is 5 coats of hand-rubbed traditional oil & beeswax crème. Alaskan birch,
maple; 47”Hx26”Wx37”D; 11/2008. PRICE: $700. |
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Sis' Stool. All-wood contoured birch slab seat with through-tenons that are then walnutwedged.
Legs are naturally-grown, unique S-curves. Handcarved reliefs and
inscriptions. Finish is 5 coats of hand-rubbed traditional oil & beeswax crème. Alder,
Alaskan birch, walnut; 17”Hx24”Wx24”D; 11/2008. SOLD. |
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“H-Chair, #1” Spruce Armchair. All-wood creative design uses extremely hard-to-find, matched side pieces of naturally-grown black spruce as the basis for a uniquely-shaped chair. Joinery for the structural members are mortise & tenoned or scribed; seat and backslats are pegged. Slats are seldom-utilized larch hardwood that was hand-harvested, seasoned and milled. Y-branches are custom selected and fitted for the rear leg skids. Finish is 5 coats of hand-rubbed traditional oil & beeswax crème. Alaskan black spruce and larch; 35”Hx22”Wx23”D; 11/2008. PRICE: $500. |