An Atelier of One · London

Wooden objects, made entirely by hand.

Each piece is conceived, drawn, sawn, planed, joined, and finished by hand. Pieces are infrequent. Considered. Not for everyone.

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A walnut box, hand-finished, by EK Atelier

Ekaterina at the oak — hands against the bark

By Hand

The maker, the wood, the time.

I grew up climbing cherry trees and apple trees, hiding in their branches, feeling the bark rough against my palms. The garden was my whole world. I knew every tree by heart.

Then came fifteen years in cities. Glass and concrete. Screens and schedules. Somewhere along the way, I forgot how it felt to touch something real.

One day I held a piece of oak in my hands and something shifted. The grain beneath my fingers. The weight of it. The quiet presence of something that had grown for a hundred years.

I make things from wood now. Not seasons. Not trends. One piece at a time, when the time and the wood are right. The grain dictates the form as much as the form dictates the grain.

Ekaterina Kharchenko

The Atelier

A workshop, in London.

Worked in English oak, American walnut, and woods chosen for the piece. Hand-finished with natural oils and waxes. No production runs. No shortcuts.

Materials

Hardwoods sourced from sustainable mills. Each plank chosen, drawn from, set aside, returned to. The grain is read before the cut.

Process

Drawn by hand. Sawn, planed, joined, sanded, oiled, waxed. Slowly. As long as the piece needs. No two pieces alike, even from the same tree.

Practice

One maker. One workshop. A few pieces a year, completed when they are done. Each carries the trace of the hand that shaped it, and the signature of the woman who made it.

Collection 001

Walnut and maple.

Pale maple, carved by hand, against dark walnut — dishes, boards, rests and chopsticks. A table, considered.

Figured walnut boards, angled and stacked in soft light

Place settings at an angle — carved maple dishes on walnut bases, with chopsticks

A hand resting on the wave-carved maple board, showing its scale

Seen from above — carved maple dishes, chopsticks and the long carved board

A large carved maple dish raised on a walnut base

The wave-carved maple board on its walnut base, dishes alongside

Walnut and maple dishes together, with walnut chopsticks

The collection laid out — carved maple dishes above, carved walnut below

Place settings in soft light — a carved maple dish on its walnut base

Three place settings from above, each with chopsticks and a maple rest

Two settings from above — maple chopstick stands, walnut boards and carved maple dishes

A large maple dish, its figured grain left smooth

A carved maple dish on its walnut base, boards behind

A figured walnut board with walnut chopsticks and a maple rest

Walnut boards and carved maple dishes, seen from above

Commissions

By private commission.

EK Atelier accepts a small number of private commissions each year.

Begin with a letter of intent. Tell Ekaterina what the piece is for, what wood you imagine, who it is for, the story behind it. If the commission is a fit, she will respond personally — with thoughts, perhaps a sketch, and the next steps of the conversation.

Commissions are not transactional. They are conversations that, when the time is right, become objects.

Replies are written by hand, when the workshop is quiet. Patience is a part of the practice.

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Wooden objects, made entirely by hand.

The maker, the wood, the time.

A workshop, in London.

Materials

Process

Practice

Walnut and maple.

Other pieces from the workshop

By private commission.

Write to the Atelier