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Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd
96 Tor O' Moor Road
Woodhall Spa
Lincolnshire. LN10 6SB

Tel. 01526 352895
enquiries@czajkowski-furniture.co.uk


New Furniture by Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd

Picture of Edmund Czajkowski

Edmund Czajkowski,  (1906 – 1980) the founder of Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd.

After training in Berlin as an interior architect and furniture designer, he then worked in Warsaw until the outbreak of the Second World War. He came to England with the Polish Airforce and after war established the firm.


We are a specialist firm situated in Woodhall Spa, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire, within the East Midlands, England, designing and making individual items of furniture and restoring furniture clocks and barometers. Using traditional craftsmen’s methods and techniques, passed from one generation to another, we turn your ideas into furniture of a quality associated more with the finest antiques of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century than with modern mass produced furniture.

Only the finest materials are used: from exotic hardwoods such as ebony, rosewood, olivewood and mahogany, to English oak, elm and ash. These timbers can be used either as a veneer or as solid timber. Experience in selecting timber is essential if the finished pieces are to stand the test of time.
We also ensure that all our timber comes from sustainable sources.

Our skills in French polishing, marquetry, parquetry (a geometrical form of marquetry), inlay work, carving, gilding and upholstery, mean that no matter how small your commission, be it a table, decorative box, with carved or gilded decoration, or large dresser, sideboard, or chest of drawers,
a chair or a dining table – you can be equally assured of the quality of each item of furniture.

Above all we like to work with you in bringing the furniture you visualise to life, or to extend the ideas that you already have. We have made several copies of antique furniture, for example, dining chairs to extend existing sets, particularly carved Chippendale and Sheraton chairs, each stained and polished to allow for variations seen in the original chairs caused by fading and wear. This may also include specialist items of furniture to match existing bedroom or dining room furniture. We have also made several clock cases in various styles to house existing movements.

We have made marriage beds, carved with dates of the marriage and names of the bride and groom and also marriage chests  - an individual way to commemorate a special occasion of any kind.

Examples of our work can be found in homes of all kinds, public buildings and churches, found in Lincolnshire, the East Midlands, throughout Britain and Europe.

Naturally such individual care lavished on the items we create cannot be rushed. There are no short cuts to quality.

Some examples of our work are illustrated below:

New chairs made as exact copies of an original

Copying chairs to extend a set. In this case the client had a
set of four and required another two.
Can you see which one is the original?

Michael Czajkowski, the “Son” in the firm Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd. Turning the angled ends of the mid horizontal splat. The original chair is on the bench so the new splats can be matched exactly.

The two chairs during  assembly

Detail of one of a set of chairs made to match an existing set of Portuguese chairs, for a client in Madeira.

Two of the new chairs before staining and polishing, to match the originals.

The set of new chairs with drop in seats,
compared to the original, with no seat.

Two oak arm chairs designed to match existing single dining chair.

One of the chairs before staining and polishing with the original.

One of a pair of bookcases made for a another client in Madeira, Portugal

 

Sideboard in mahogany, doors and drawer crossbanded with kingwood.

Detail of decorated finish

Marriage Chest
Marriage Chest
Marriage Chest
Chest to commemorate a marriage, made in cherry, carved with motifs of intertwined Australian lizard and Canadian Killer whale.

Marriage Chest Completed

Marriage chest in oak

Marriage Chest Design

Original design

Marriage Chest Design

Drawing to show suggested carving details accepted by the client.

Marriage Chest Complete

Detail of top.

Marriage Chest Design of magpies and cherry blossom for carved lid for a Christening chest presented to  the client.

Marriage Chest Carving Design

Marriage Chest Carving Detail

Marriage Bed

Marriage bed made in Oak with box and bog oak inlay.

Marriage Bed Carving

Headboard containing names and dates of marriage.

Design for Burr Elm Table

Design for the coffee table
as presented to the customer.

Burr Elm Table

Burr elm table made to hold a piece of “Shap Granite”

Burr Elm Table

Games table made in olivewood with marquetry of box, mahogany, and rosewood. The end top panels containing a marquetry design which included the Maltese cross, taken from a commode in the family collection in Malta.

 Table base made to compliment existing furniture and contain an Indian inlaid marble top.

Monks Bench

Monks bench made for Harrods, London

Spice Rack

Elm Spice Rack

Extending Dining Table during construction

Extending Dining Table During Construction

Extending Dining Table

Completed Dining Table

Dining Table During Construction

Large Oval Dining Table During Construction

Oval Dining Table

Large Oval dining table 8 ft x 6 ft

Butlers Tray

Butler’s Sycamore, inlaid with marquetry cartouche of oak leaves on a green ground.

Walnut Kneehole Desk

Walnut kneehole Desk
with two drawers

  

Ash Chairs

Two of a set of 6 chairs made in ash

Design for Bookcase

Design for small bookcase in Mahogany
and the finished bookcase on the right.

Finished Mahogany Bookcase

Candle Stand for the Probus Club

candle stand made
for The Probus Club.

Walnut Dressing Table

One of a pair of dressing table
made in burr walnut.

Walnut Dressing Table Prior to Assembly

The component parts made up prior to assembly and polishing.

One of a pair of side tables made for Sledmere House,
Driffield, Yorkshire. After painting and gilding.

Table bases finished, before painting.

Carving legs.

Cherry Blanket Box

Cherry blanket box

Cherry Blanket Box During Construction

Cutting dovetail joints

Cherry Blanket Box DBefore Polishing

Cherry box before staining and polishing.

Cupboard in iroko, with doors veneered in various timbers to a design influenced by Australian aborigine grave markers. Made for an Australian client.

Rosewood Reversible Coffee Table

Rosewood table with reversible top.

Rosewood Reversible Coffee Table
Egyption Table
Egyptian style games / occasional table.
The top box with the carved and painted panel can be reversed to reveal a chess board.
The drawer has two compartments, each accessible from their respective sides.
Macassa Rosewood games table.

We often extend dining tables by making new leaves and extensions.
New leaf made to extend dining table.

The underside showing metal slots for the braces that support the leaf.

Sideboard in Columbian Pine

Sideboard in Columbian pine. Made to match arts and crafts furniture.

Commemorative cupboard

Commemorative cupboard based on a Norwegian design for
couple commemorating 20 years of marriage. Text in old Norwegian

Presentation chest made in English oak for Lincolnshire County Council

Presentation chest made in English oak for Lincolnshire County Council to give to the Lord Lieutenant
Sir Henry Neville, upon his retirement.

Presentation chest made in English oak for Lincolnshire County Council

Lord Lieutenant Sir Henry Neville, upon his retirement.

At the presentation,
the chest can be seen filled with various gifts.

One of a pair of chest of drawers

One of a pair of chest of drawers, and one of a pair of matching carved mirrors made in oak, part of a bedroom suite designed based around an existing bed head.

one of a pair of matching carved mirrors

view of bed head with one of the chest of drawers.

25 ft long dining table made for Sledmere House

25 ft long dining table made for Sledmere House, Driffield Yorkshire.

maple veneered jewellery box
maple veneered jewellery box
Mahogany and birds-eye-maple veneered jewellery box

Refectory table in burr-oak

Refectory table in burr-oak

Sideboard in mahogany

Sideboard in mahogany

Library folding chair

Library folding chair shown both open and folded

Library folding chair

Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd. will be happy to advise you on bringing to life your individual ideas that will compliment the furniture of your home.

Timber is a natural substance and will always react to different regimes of dryness and heat. The following information sheet will help you to ensure that your furniture is looked after in the best possible way.

Please see our other pages illustrating individually designed church work, built-in furniture, clock cases and carved and decorated information signs.
See also Looking after your Furniture

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