Furniture is drawn
before it's built.
We design each piece with you, source the material — reclaimed wood where it fits — and work with a small group of specialist carpenters in Slovenia to build it. Kitchens, cabinetry, and standalone furniture, made for the room they'll live in.
Three stages, no surprises.
The same sequence every time, so you always know what's happening to your piece and when.
Drawn, then matched to material
We measure the space and talk through how you'll use the piece. We draw it, then choose the material — including reclaimed wood, when the piece calls for it.
Carpenters' workshops
Each piece goes to the carpenter best suited to it — we split our time between their workshops in our hometown area, translating the drawing and checking joinery and fit at every stage.
Fitted on site
Delivery and installation are scheduled as one visit, wherever you are — the piece arrives finished, fitted, and ready to use.
A few recent projects.
Pieces designed with the client and built with carpenters in Slovenia — a selection. The full catalogue sits on the work page.
Korenina means root — the piece starts with the material.
We grew up in a small village in Slovenia, surrounded by kozolci — the traditional hayracks you still see across the countryside, all exposed structure and no ornament. That's probably where our eye for construction started, long before we had a word for it. Our family has worked with wood for decades, restoring furniture nobody else wanted and running a guesthouse alongside it — that's the material world we came from. Ljubljana gave us a first real exposure to a newer wave of design. Then we left — Lisbon, then Berlin — studying and living abroad, picking up a background in mechanical engineering along the way. Coming back to work with carpenters in that same hometown region wasn't a straight line, but it made sense in the end: we bring the design and engineering eye, they bring technique carried through generations, and together we make the piece.
Clients are based across Europe and beyond; production stays close to the material, in Slovenia. Steel comes into it too — countertops, and curved pieces where wood alone won't hold the shape.
Tell me about the space.
A few lines about the space and what you need is enough to start — we'll follow up with questions. Prefer email? Write to contact@korenina.com.
We'll reply by email once we've had a look at the space and what you need.