The only writing is on the side that faces the floor.
De Drievoet is a three-legged stool cut from one 48 mm board of Belgian river-valley oak, air-dried for three years under our roof. Karel and Bram Volders have made this one object at Korenlei 14 since 1987. Under every seat: the month’s batch, the forest the tree grew in, and three marks aligned with its wedges.
October’s twenty-four.
The kiln fires once a month and the bench cuts one batch. When the twenty-fourth place is taken, the ledger closes and the next firing begins. Fourteen places are spoken for. These ten are not.
Lot 15 is open.
Configure the stoolElevation · 1:10 · mm
Foxtail tenons, wedged
No screws, no metal
One stool.
Three heights.
Each height was worked out around a real place to sit: a hearth, a table, a bench. The seat is dished by hand; the three legs are turned to an 11° splay and through-wedged with foxtail tenons. Choose the height your room asks for, then the surface.
€240incl. VAT
Lot 15 of 24 · 10 places left
- Height
- 32 cm
- Seat diameter
- 29 cm
- Weight
- 3.1 kg
- Foot-ring
- Not fitted
- Timber
- Sonian oak, air-dried 3 yrs
- Fixings
- Three oak wedges
Three years under the roof.
Forty-eight millimetres through.
- Species
- Quercus robur, Belgian river valley
- Board
- 48 mm, one board per seat
- Seasoning
- Three years under the Korenlei shed roof
- Moisture at the lathe
- Below 9%, read with a hand meter
- Batch
- One firing a month · strictly 24 stools
- Fixings
- Riven oak wedges only · no metal
One batch. Twenty-four seats. Then the ledger closes, the offcuts go into the stove, and the next stack is chosen.
Fired 30 October 2026 · Korenlei 14
Look underneath.
We do not sign the top. A stool is a working object: the seat will be sat on, spilled on, sanded back. The underside keeps the record. A hot iron carries the month and the lot, the forest the tree grew in, and three marks that line up with the wedges.
- 01Batch & lot
OCT-2026, place 15 of 24. The month the plank was cut, not the month it was sold.
- 02Forest origin
Sonian or Ardennes. The stack the board came from, readable in the burn.
- 03Wedge orientation
Three marks, 120° apart, aligned with the riven wedges that lock the tenons.
Atelier Volders · Korenlei 14
OCT-2026
LOT 15/24
Wedge orientation · 11° splay
Hot iron · 280°CRead at the underside
Six weeks, one bench.
A stool is not taken from a shelf. It is made in the same six steps every month by two people at the same bench. The batch closes on 30 October; the next six weeks are already spoken for.
Choose the plank
Week 1 · 2–6 November
A single 48 mm board is chosen from the stack. The meter reads 8.6% at the centre and 8.9% at the edge. If it reads nine, the board goes back on the stack.
Moisture · 8.6%
Saturdays at Korenlei 14.
The workshop opens for timber inspection every Saturday, 10:00–16:00. Come and put a hand on the stack, read a moisture meter, or sit on all three heights before you choose. We are on the Leie quay, six minutes’ walk from Sint-Michielsbrug.
- Address
- Korenlei 14, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Open
- Saturdays, 10:00–16:00 · by the Leie
- Getting there
- Six minutes on foot from Sint-Michielsbrug. Ring the brass bell at the timber door.
- Other days
- The bench is running. Write first: atelier@volders.be
Take a number.
Reserve a place in October’s batch. We confirm the deposit and the week your stool starts by email within two working days. It leaves Korenlei 14 in week six, by barge or courier.
Price includes VAT. No payment is taken on this page; a place is held for two working days.
Lot 16 is held for two working days.
Your name is against this place. Nothing else is needed from you now; the work order is the only record. We confirm the deposit by email, then the six weeks begin.
- 01We confirm the deposit
By email, within two working days.
- 02The batch is cut
From 2 November. Your stool follows the same six steps as the other twenty-three.
- 03It leaves Korenlei 14
Friday 11 December 2026, by barge or courier.
Place held
LOT 15 / 24
October’s stool, reserved.
We’ll email you within two working days to confirm the deposit and the week your stool starts. Keep this reference.
Batch 10 · closes Friday 30 October · dispatch Friday 11 December 2026