Portrait of the Đồng Kỵ family workshop: three carvers and joiners of different ages standing together in the timber yard among stacked ironwood, family workshop of the family trade

Artisan · Đồ gỗ mỹ nghệ · Đồng Kỵ village

Đồng
Kỵ workshop

Carvers & joiners · Family workshop · Est. 1976

“A joint should fit so well the wood forgets it was two pieces.”

The workshop's mark, burned into the underside of every piece.

Craft: Carved hardwoodTables, boxes, cabinets
Workshop: Đồng KỵThree brothers and their sons
Learned from: Their fathera temple carver
Signature: Joints without nailsin ironwood and rosewood
On LangSoul: 5 worksTakes commissions

01 — The maker

Three brothers, one timber yard

The workshop is a family: three brothers who learned on their father's temple carvings and now build furniture the slow way, with timber dried for years and joints that need no nails.

Stacks of ironwood and rosewood planks drying in an open-sided yard, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light

A chisel paring a mortise in dark hardwood, shavings curling, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light

The workshop is a family: three brothers who learned on their father's temple carvings and now build furniture the slow way, with timber dried for years and joints that need no nails.

Their father carved doors and beams for the communal houses of Bắc Ninh; when that work ended he turned to furniture and taught his sons. The workshop has stayed small by choice while the village around it grew into an industry.

The timber yard is the heart of it: ironwood and rosewood stacked under cover for two or three years before a chisel touches them. The joinery is mortise, tenon and wedge; a table can be knocked apart and rebuilt. The carving follows the grain. The finish is oil and wax, so the wood keeps moving with the seasons.

Hands carving a low-relief lotus into rosewood with a small gouge, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light

A cloth rubbing oil into carved rosewood, grain darkening under it, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light

02 — The works

Five works from the bench

All fine woodwork works

Reading table, carved ironwood

Table · Unique

$2,400

Lidded box, carved rosewood

Box · Edition of 8

$420

Low stool, carved ironwood

Stool · Edition of 6

$620

Desk tray, rosewood

Tray · Edition of 10

$260

Jewellery cabinet, rosewood

Cabinet · Unique

$1,400

All fine woodwork works

03 — Commission

The workshop takes furniture commissions

A table to a room, a cabinet to a wall, a set of boxes. Tell us the dimensions and the timber you like and we will carry the conversation to the yard. Three to six months from timber to crate; furniture travels by sea.

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A letter from Đồng Kỵ

“The top is cut from one board, as you asked. It is in the yard now, getting used to being flat.”

— to a collector in Melbourne, May 2026.

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