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The van leaves on Friday.

Oclahome works on the floor of a joinery on the hill. A chair is photographed where it was glued. If the joint is still wet, the picture waits. On Friday the pieces that fit go into the van for the shops farther north.

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The room is above the benches on Strada Decebal. The people who call are the joiners and the shops that buy from them. A job that wants a lifestyle kitchen is declined at the door.

Unfinished, on the floor
Chair Unfinished, on the floor
Vise, a leg
Hands Vise, a leg

More stills

Between the floors
Stair Between the floors
Friday, doors open
Van Friday, doors open
Sanding a stool
Apprentice Sanding a stool
Fog on the hill
Windows Fog on the hill
Stacked, not stamped
Legs Stacked, not stamped
Clamps and glue
Bench Clamps and glue
Winter, Decebal
Street Winter, Decebal
Closed, on the bench
List Closed, on the bench

Apprentices stay in the frame when their hands made the piece. The master does not pose with someone else's stool. The list on the bench is the edit: what does not fit in the van does not get a picture.

Process

1

The joint

We wait until the glue is hard enough to move. A wet joint is not a picture we will fake as dry.

2

The floor

The piece stays where it was made. Sawdust is swept only if it hides a joint the shop needs to see.

3

The apprentice

Hands in frame belong to the person who cut the piece. We do not swap in the master for a cleaner portrait.

4

Friday

The van list is the edit. A chair that will not travel this week is filed for the week it will.

5

The shop

Files are named for the shop that ordered them, and they leave before the van door shuts.

Three pieces

Six chairs, one short leg

2025, Joinery

Six chairs, one short leg

A school in Edineț needed a set that matched, and one chair was short.

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The stair when the floor floods

2026, Workshop

The stair when the floor floods

Spring water took the ground floor, so the show was the stair.

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An apprentice's first stool

2024, Bench

An apprentice's first stool

The master asked for the picture. The apprentice had not.

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Oclahome

Write the piece, whether the glue is hard, and which shop it is going to.

Before Friday