WORKSHOP & STUDIO shrineart

Josef J. Greiner - craftsman and artist

Reclaimed Wood Furniture
Recycled wood will be re-used
Collected Material will be re-used
Unique, Handcrafted Solid Wood Furniture

Only working with reclaimed or antique lumber and other collected material: good looking quarter-turn stair and banister both from reclaimed wood. Josef is artist and cabinetmaker and also sepcialised on interior fittings from his joinery in Munich. Now he make it in his own style, shrineart furniture sculptures. shrineart studio courses start at 2010. If you are interested in learning woodworking like Josef is doing well send a mail to info@shrineart.de call germany - 040 - 89 49 77

Reclaimed lumber

Properties of reclaimed lumber

Reclaimed lumber is popular for many reasons: the wood's unique appearance, its contribution to green building, the history of the wood's origins and the wood's physical characteristics such as strength, stability and durability. Reclaimed beams can be sawn into wider planks than the harvested lumber and many companies purport that their products are more stable than newly cut wood because reclaimed wood has been exposed to changes in humidity for far longer and therefore more stable, allowing them to be used with radiant heating systems. In some cases, the timbers from which the boards were cut have been slightly expanding and contracting for over a century in their previous installation. Radiant heat, with its low temperatures and even distribution affects the wood flooring the same way, but the impact is much less dramatic with antique wood than newly sawn wood because antique wood has already been through this cycle for years.

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Commissional work with reclaimed wood

Wall shelves, chairs, quarter-turn stair, banister and table

‚Shavings curl from the plane in my hands, swish-and-slide, as I rock to the motion of the work. The smell of fresh-cut wood, a slick, silvery yellow surface gleaming under the tireless plane and a feeling of contentment. Nothing is wrong. Here am I, here is my work - and someone is waiting for the fruits of these fleeting hours. Hands will caress this shimmery surface, a thumb will discover the edge which I am rounding.'

James Krenov

Studio shrineart Überseering 23 - 25 I Hamburg Winterhude I Tel: +49 40 89 49 77 I mail: info@shrineart.de