Workshop - Jan Hendzel Studio

Capacity

We invest in great tools. Our machine room has the capacity to process an extremely large amount of timber. Once processed, our workshop has the range of finer, accurate tools to shape component parts. We have frequently batch-processed ranges of furniture – The Victory House Hotel and University of Arts, London are two recent examples.

CNC machining

Today’s furniture maker is left behind without the CNC machine. An accurate and sure-fire way of rapidly testing ideas for prototyping, or reaching the same result 2 or 3 or 300 times. Essential for commercial-scale projects.

Product testing

Extensive workshop testing ensures durability. This underpins our creation of heirloom furniture and commercial collections. Intimate knowledge of timber and accurate joinery ensures longevity. It is often cited by clients that keep returning to us.

Prototyping

Most of what we do requires testing. Making jigs, building mock ups, striving to make in more efficient, accurate ways. We’ll never suggest a solution unless we know first hand that it works.

Experimentation

Skills and tools aren’t the only ingredients in our furniture making. Curiosity, fun and an insatiable ‘what if’ permeates everything we do. Some ideas work, some don’t, but we are always pleased with the resource of sumptuous textures and whimsical forms that come about through striving for originality.