Solid
wood
doesn't lie.

Furniture and objects from solid oak and ash. I work alone, in 25m² near Warsaw. No particle board. No veneer. No catalogue. Four lines, one pair of hands.

Est.
2023
Archive
30+
Bespoke commissions / year
4–5
Trinity — close-up of the openwork lattice in solid ash, rounded edges and grain
◆ Trinity · ash · 160×105cm · 2025

Four lines · one brand

A brand house
built on myth

The price comes from the board, not from a catalogue. So much wood, so many hours, so much history.

Each sub-line is a character from Norse mythology — not a place. Yggdrasil is the axis around which the home turns. Fylgja is the companion spirit. Sif is the hearth. Ivaldi is the forge. One palette, one pair of hands, four scales and four tempos.

01 · Bespoke

Yggdrasil

The world tree. Axis of the home.

Tables, shelving, beds, built-ins. Every piece designed for a specific home and a specific pair of hands. 4–5 commissions per year. No exceptions.

  • 4–5 per year, always bespoke
  • with deposit
  • origin document included
  • numbered, signed, registered
Price
3.5–20k+ EUR per commission
Lead time
6–16 wks

02 · Home

Fylgja

The companion spirit. Presence.

Coffee tables, nightstands, stools, consoles. Furniture that doesn't want the spotlight — but shows up every day.

  • 1–2 pieces / month
  • signed, numbered
  • stock or commission
Price
625–3k EUR per piece
Lead time
2–5 wks

03 · Kitchen

Sif

Goddess of the hearth. Harvest.

Boards, trays, containers, serving pieces. Often from the same wood that became a large table.

  • batches of 8–15 pcs
  • food-safe finishes
  • often from Yggdrasil offcuts
  • numbered within batch
Price
100–625 EUR per piece
Lead time
batches · monthly

04 · Desk

Ivaldi

Master smith. The forge of tools.

Pen trays, headphone stands, desk organisers. The sons of Ivaldi forged Thor's hammer. Your desk deserves the same attention.

  • batches of 8–10 pcs
  • 1 workshop day = 1 batch
  • packed in kraft paper
  • smallest scale
Price
75–375 EUR per piece
Lead time
batches · monthly

Archive · 30+ · 2023–2026

Selected works

Every piece has a story. Every one is signed. Some carry scars.

Andvari

FYL-CAB-0001 · 2026 · Oak & cherry · 60×40×45cm · 3 drawers · peg lock

Andvari guarded gold beneath a waterfall. This cabinet guards its drawers from a two-year-old — with a wooden peg instead of a lock. Cherry fronts, the first cherry in the palette. And facing the wall, where nobody looks: 450 end-grain oak blocks glued into a panel no one sees. Most of the work went into the invisible part. On purpose.

Private client · Warsaw Chronicle →

Trinity

YGG-SET-0001 · 2025 · Ash · 160×105cm · Osmo · ~120kg · 4 months

Three tables. One tailor. Top with an openwork lattice, tambour of vertical slats, cracks stitched with butterfly inlays. A commission measured in months of patience.

Private client · Poznań Chronicle →

Amytis

YGG-SHELF-0001A · 2026 · Oak · 195×120×28cm · 7 shelves · live edge

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon — in domestic scale. A solid oak shelf, seven shelves, three modules, edges hand-rounded with a sander. No router.

Private client · Warka Chronicle →

Firāq

YGG-SHELF-0001B · 2026 · Oak · 206×52×28cm · 7 levels · memento mori

Separation — Arabic, borrowed by Persian. The other half of a pair commissioned alongside Amytis: she longed for the mountains of Media, he is the longing. Oak with its face cracks left open, walnut dowels and butterflies, and a memento mori stamped where the client may never find it.

Private client · Warka Chronicle →

Singer

YGG-BL-0001 · 2024 · Ash · 90×150cm · live edge · Singer base

A knot fell out and left a window. I didn't fill it. The wood knows better.

First commission Story →

Skidbladnir

IVL-DT-0001 · 2026 · Ash · 4 channels · live edge · 467g

A pen tray. Floats above the desk. The first Ivaldi — made because nothing like it was out there.

First Ivaldi · 2026 Chronicle →

Feniks

FYL-T-0003 · 2024 · Oak · 106×56cm · oil · beeswax

The beam carried scars. It showed me where to cut.

One-off · sold Story →

Orion

FYL-T-0001 · 2023 · Ash · 80×44cm · butterfly keys · steel sleeves

A constellation on the top. A tribute to Metallica.

One-off · sold Story →

Jazz Bass

SIF-D-0001 · 2023 · Oak · 1:1 scale · guitar body

Technically kitchen. In practice — it hangs in the living room as art. Board cast from the client's actual bass.

Made to order Story →
Full archive · on the blog · 2023–2026 See all works →

Manifesto · excerpt

I started because I wanted to create. I ended up optimising. Wood reminded me.

— Sebastian Opalczynski · Gabryelin · 2026

Four rules

How I work

These aren't "brand values." They're how I work — and why not every project is a fit. If yours isn't, I'll say so straight and point you to someone better.

The flaw
is the feature

A knot fell out — it stays. A crack — I highlight it. Sawmill marks — the memory of the material. I don't fill with resin, I don't cover with filler. The wood knows better.

Rule #1

Solid
only

Oak. Ash. Walnut. No particle board, MDF, OSB, HDF, veneer. Full planks. Live edge when the material calls for it. Nothing hidden.

Rule #2

Time
is the argument

40–80 hours per piece. 6–16 weeks for Yggdrasil. I don't work to yesterday's deadline.

Rule #3

The wood
leads

Like in a dance. A project on paper starts from a specific plank — from this sawmill, with this knot, with this crack. Often the material tells me what it wants to become. A "custom-size" table has dimensions that come from a specific block — not the other way around.

Rule #4

Origin document · Yggdrasil only

Every piece
comes with paper

Where the wood came from, when it was felled, how it was dried, what finish was used, how many hours of work, serial number, signature. Hand-stamped paper. Not a PDF.

Certificate
Code:
YGG-SET-0001
Project:
Trinity · tailor's workstation
Material:
Ash
Wood source:
Nova Lumber Jagielska · Warsaw
Finish:
Osmo · hardwax oil
Build:
XII 2024 – III 2025 · 143 h
Berserker
◆ Oak ◆

What the certificate contains

The full history of a piece of furniture, from forest trunk to your living room. Facts I can prove — and scars I won't apologise for.

  • Wood origin — specific sawmill, distance from the workshop, felling date, drying time.
  • Process — how many hours, when, what finish, how many coats.
  • Scars — every inlay, every knot, every crack — described, located.
  • Care — how and when to feed it. How not to ruin it.
  • Signature and stamp — by hand. Always.

One workshop · one pair of hands · since 2023

Sebastian
Opalczynski

workshop · Gabryelin · 2026

A programmer who defined himself by code for years. Somewhere along the way he stopped asking about beauty. Wood reminded him.

Today: 25m² of garage near Warsaw, solid wood, one pair of hands, four lines. No employees, no subcontractors, no catalogue. Every signature on the underside — mine.

Workshop
Gabryelin · 40 km from Warsaw
Capacity
4–5 Yggdrasil / year
Availability
Mail · 24h reply
Visits
Saturdays · by email

Commission · Gabryelin, 40 km from Warsaw

Let's make
something real.

Write briefly: what, where, when. I'll reply within a day. If the project fits — we'll set a price and deposit. If not — I'll say so straight and recommend someone better.

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