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Our woods

We mainly use hornbeam and beech wood for our logs. We source in France and select our suppliers with care.

Hornbeam is a tree of the Betulaceae family (Alder, Birch, and Hornbeam), and is a difficult wood to split because of its slow growth. It can be made into butcher's logs, workbenches, yokes or wheel hubs. Its dense, marcescent foliage (which does not fall in autumn) can be confused with that of beech. To differentiate between them, there is a little saying:
"Adam's charm is to be naked" (translate: the charm has teeth, the beech has hair).

The beech (or beechwood, faou, fouteau, Fagus sylvatica), is a tree of the Fagaceae family because the fruit is kept in a "cup"
(Chestnut, Oak, Beech). In "standing wood" (not cut), it is made into butcher's logs. Beech wood is suitable for turning (toys, chair legs), staining and polishing. Because of its homogeneity, beech wood was much used by woodworkers, turners, manufacturers of complex parts. It was also used to make the old clothes pegs of our grandmothers, before the invasion of polymers. Today, it is exploited in joinery (furniture, parquet floors) on condition that it is dried with care (tendency to shrink). Beech is used in 14% of the furniture made in France, just behind oak. Beech covers 9% of the French forest, behind oak and Scots pine.

Our company

Our company has the EPV label, given by the French State, and is part of the Ateliers d'art de France. This label and this membership to the Ateliers d'art de France guarantee you a work of quality.

EPV Label: The label "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" (EPV) is a State recognition mark set up to distinguish French companies with excellent craft and industrial know-how. This label brings together manufacturers committed to the high performance of their trade and their products. This label is awarded to unique companies that know how to reconcile tradition and innovation, know-how and creation, work and passion, heritage and future, local and international.

Ateliers d'Art de France, chaired by Serge Nicole, federates more than 6000 craftsmen, artists and art manufacturers throughout France. Professional organization of art crafts, their vocation is the promotion, representation, defense and economic development of art workshops. Deeply invested in the educational, cultural and social fields, Ateliers d'Art de France deploys flagship actions for the structuring and influence of the art crafts sector, in France and internationally.

100% of our logs are made in the Loire Valley at Saint Bonnet le Château in our workshops.

All our logs are customizable in shape and size. We create unique designs for your kitchen.

We have chosen a manufacturing method that has been mastered by our establishment for more than a century. We use the so-called "end-grain" wood, which corresponds to sawing perpendicular to the fibres of the trunk (as if it were cut into slices). The paving stones thus obtained are assembled one by one to make up the cutting board.

Wood has always been the material of choice for furniture manufacturers. Renowned for its sturdiness, the "end" wood resists all shocks and blows from the blade. These are applied in the direction of the wood fibre, so the cutting surface cannot crumble or break. Produced according to the NF food hygiene standard, your Chabret log will always remain smooth and healthy.