One stool.24 at a time.
Three legs.
One whole oak board.
Nothing that doesn’t belong.
De Drievoet
Our only stool. In three heights, for a lifetime of use.
A whole board.
A lifetime ahead.
Before we make the first cut, we wait three years.
Belgian river-valley oak rests under our shed roof on the Korenlei. We choose a single 48 mm board for each seat. No glued-up strips. The grain runs all the way through. We fire the drying kiln and cut just one batch a month.
Follow the six weeks ↓A name underneath.
The month. The forest. Its place in a batch of 24. Hot-iron branded into the seat, beside our three-ankle wedge mark.
Sonian or Ardennes oak. Always traceable.Six weeks.
No shortcuts.
Turned, adzed and wedged by hand.
No screws. No metal. Just a joint
that holds more firmly with time.
THROUGH-WEDGED FOXTAIL TENONS
Three legs, splayed at 11°.
The wedges lock each one into the seat.
- WEEK 01
Read the timber.
We select the plank and check its moisture. Under 9%, or it waits a little longer.
Oak · below 9% moisture - WEEK 02
Turn three legs.
Each tapered leg is turned by hand, then set at an 11° splay. Three feet find their level.
Three legs · 11° splay - WEEK 03
Follow the grain.
A hand adze dishes the solid seat. The shallow hollow is felt before it is seen.
One board · 48 mm thick - WEEK 04
Let the wood hold.
Foxtail tenons pass through the seat and open with hand-driven wedges. There is no metal to hide.
Through-wedged · no screws - WEEK 05
Give it a surface.
Soap, ammonia fuming, or linseed oil and beeswax. Then time to cure, without hurrying the timber.
Three finishes · cured by hand - WEEK 06
Mark its beginning.
We brand the underside with its month, lot and forest origin. Then it leaves Korenlei 14 by barge or courier.
Branded in Ghent · ready to travel
Find your height.
Make it your own.
The same honest construction.
Three ways to fit into your day.
At the table, at your desk, or wherever another seat is needed.
Pale, matte grain, treated with white linseed soap. The oak at its quietest.
- Seat diameter
- 32 cm
- Weight
- 3.8 kg
- Construction
- Solid oak, wedged joints
- Making time
- Six weeks
Made to order.
24 stools per monthly batch.
Your choices, ready to bring to the workshop.
One stool, three places to sit.
| Height | At home | Seat Ø | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 cm | Fireside, hallway boots, low tea table | 29 cm | 3.1 kg | €240 |
| 45 cm | Dining table & desk | 32 cm | 3.8 kg | €270 |
| 62 cm | Workshop & counter, with mortised ash foot-ring | 33 cm | 4.4 kg | €310 |
Two brothers.
One address.
In 1987, we opened a small woodworking workshop beside the Leie. We have been making De Drievoet here ever since.
One batch a month. Twenty-four stools. Enough to keep our hands busy, and our attention where it belongs.
Come by
the quay.
Come feel the grain and inspect the timber.
The door is open on Saturdays.
- Find us
- Korenlei 14
9000 Ghent, Belgium - Saturday
- 10:00–16:00
- On foot
- 6 minutes from Sint-Michielsbrug,
along the Leie river quay.