Some of it comes from Jos Bregman of Nature Access International, an artist in Almere Oosterwold who "remixes" trees. When old oaks, centuries-old beeches, and beloved lindens are removed as part of urban forestry and estate thinning work, Jos gives the wood a second chapter. He names each tree. Tells its story. Transforms it into objects that carry forward what would otherwise be lost.
We work with Jos in the way craftspeople always have—exchanging projects for wood he sets aside. Small pieces, offcuts, fragments left over from larger projects. This wood never became a table or a chair. It sat in the atelier, sometimes waiting for decades, until the moment arrived for it to take shape. A tree that stood for a hundred years or more continues its story through what it becomes.
Other wood finds its way to us through online marketplaces, where people sell or give away furniture they no longer need. Old secretaries with drawers that once held letters, papers, stamps. Solid tables. Timber that was built to last but no longer fits someone's life. Good wood. Too good to throw away.
This wood has already lived. It served a purpose. And now it becomes something new.
We don't see either as waste. We see material that still has plenty of life in it.
When wood arrives at our studio, we study it before we cut. We look at how the grain runs, where it is strongest, which parts have aged well. The material tells us what it can become.
I carve the small elements. Intricate details that require patience and precision. My wife works on larger pieces, still unannounced, still taking shape in the quiet of the workshop. We design everything together, sketching, debating angles and curves, finding the form that honors the wood and fits the wearer.
This is not mass production. Each pendant, each piece of jewelry, emerges from working with what we have. No two pieces are the same. The grain differs. The color varies. The character is already there.
That's what we believe. Wood that took decades to grow deserves more than one chance.
Unlike gold or diamonds, wood isn't born from heat or pressure. It grows from sunlight, water, and time—a process that exists only on Earth. Why cut a new tree when solid timber already exists? Why waste material that spent years becoming what it is?
Not because sustainable sounds good in marketing. But because wood that took so long to grow shouldn't end up in a fire pit or a landfill. It should stay in motion. Keep living. Keep being part of daily life.
Jos believes his objects are journeys through space and time. We see it the same way—wood that continues, transforms, carries forward.
When you wear a pendant made from our wood, you're wearing something solid. Something real. Something that carries a bit of time in its grain.
