The right board
We buy timber from forests that are replanted as they are cut, then let every board rest until it stops moving. Sometimes that takes a year.
The workshop
Made slowly, by hand
Every Ovia piece is made in one of forty small workshops we have visited ourselves. Most are family-run, and none of them make more than a few hundred pieces a year.
Joined, not screwed
Tables and chairs are held together with mortise-and-tenon and dowel joints, the way furniture was made to last before flat-pack. They can be taken apart and repaired.
Thrown and fired
Our ceramics come from potters who throw every piece on the wheel and glaze it by hand, so no two are quite alike.
40+workshops across Europe
1,286pieces in the catalog
10 yrswarranty on every frame
We would rather make one chair that lasts fifty years than fifty chairs that last one.