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Low stool, carved ironwood: A low ironwood stool with a carved apron and pegged joints, oil-and-wax finish, standing in a shaft of workshop light, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light, by Đồng Kỵ workshop
Photo · In the workshop
Low stool, carved ironwood: A low ironwood stool with a carved apron and pegged joints, oil-and-wax finish, standing in a shaft of workshop light, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light, by Đồng Kỵ workshop
01 / 04 · In the workshop
Low stool, carved ironwood, macro of the carved apron, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light
02 / 04 · The apron
Low stool, carved ironwood, close-up of a pegged mortise-and-tenon joint, no nails, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light
03 / 04 · A joint
Low stool, carved ironwood, the top seen at a low angle, grain under oil and wax, in a Đồng Kỵ carving workshop, ironwood and rosewood planks, chisels and shavings, oiled dark grain, timber-yard light
04 / 04 · The top

Photographed in the workshop. Heavy enough to stay where it is put; the apron is carved with the cloud scroll of the communal houses.

Đồ gỗ mỹ nghệ · Fine woodwork · Edition of 6

Low stool, carved ironwood

Gỗ lim — ironwood; a stool in the form of the ones in the communal houses, joined without a nail.

$620

Shipping & duties included

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

Đồng Kỵ workshop

Carvers & joiners · Đồng Kỵ village · Family workshop

The low stool of the northern communal house — the one elders sat on at the feast — in ironwood dried two years, the legs tenoned through the top and wedged, the apron carved with a cloud scroll that follows the grain.

For beside a bed, under a window, next to a bath. It will outlast the room.

Materials
Ironwood, oil and wax finish
Technique
Mortise-and-tenon joinery; relief carving on the apron
Dimensions
42 × 30 × 36 cm · 16.5 × 11.8 × 14.2 in · 7 kg
Edition
Edition of 6 · Signed and sealed
Made
Đồng Kỵ, Từ Sơn · 2026
Delivery
Crated by hand, insured door to door · Ready in 10 days · 30-day return

$620

Duties and worldwide shipping included · Ready to send in 10 days

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Each work is crated by hand in Hà Nội and insured door to door. If it does not belong in your home, return it within 30 days.

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The making

Four weeks, after two years

The stool is the simplest piece from the yard and the one the brothers say shows the joinery best.

I

The timber

Ironwood stacked two years.

II

The joints

Legs tenoned through the top and wedged from above.

III

The carving

Cloud scroll cut into the apron with the grain.

IV

The finish

Oiled and waxed; left a month to settle.

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