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Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd
96 Tor O' Moor Road
Woodhall Spa
Lincolnshire.
LN10 6SB
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New Furniture by Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd
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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: |
Copying chairs to extend a set. In this case the client had
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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 |
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Sideboard in mahogany, doors and drawer crossbanded with
kingwood.
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Detail of decorated finish |
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Chest to commemorate a marriage, made in cherry,
carved with motifs of intertwined Australian lizard and Canadian
Killer whale. |
Marriage chest in oak
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Original design
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Drawing to show suggested carving details accepted by the
client.
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Detail of top.
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Design of magpies and cherry blossom for carved
lid for a Christening chest presented to the client. |
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Marriage bed made in Oak with box and bog oak inlay.
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Headboard containing names and dates of marriage.
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Design for the coffee table
as presented to the customer. |
Burr elm table made to hold a piece of “Shap Granite” |
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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. |
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Table base made to compliment existing
furniture and contain an Indian inlaid marble top. |
Monks bench made for Harrods, London
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Elm Spice Rack |
Extending Dining Table During Construction
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Completed Dining Table
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Large Oval Dining Table During Construction
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Large Oval dining table 8 ft x 6 ft |
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Butler’s Sycamore, inlaid with marquetry
cartouche of oak leaves on a green ground. |
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Walnut kneehole Desk
with two drawers |
Two of a set of 6 chairs made in ash |
Design for small bookcase in Mahogany
and the finished bookcase on the right. |
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candle stand made
for The Probus Club. |
One of a pair of dressing table
made in burr walnut. |
The component parts made up prior to assembly and polishing.
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One of a pair of side tables made for Sledmere House,
Driffield,
Yorkshire. After painting and gilding.
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Table bases finished, before painting.
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Carving legs. |
Cherry blanket box
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Cutting dovetail joints
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Cherry box before staining and polishing.
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Cupboard in iroko, with doors veneered in various timbers
to a design influenced by Australian aborigine grave markers.
Made for an Australian client. |
Rosewood table with reversible top. |
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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. |
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Macassa Rosewood games table. |
We often extend dining tables by making new leaves and extensions.
New leaf made to extend dining table.
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The underside showing metal slots for the braces that support
the leaf.
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Sideboard in Columbian pine. Made to match arts and crafts
furniture.
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Commemorative cupboard based on a Norwegian design for
couple
commemorating 20 years of marriage. Text in old Norwegian
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Presentation chest made in English oak for Lincolnshire
County Council to give to the Lord Lieutenant
Sir Henry Neville,
upon his retirement.
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At the presentation,
the chest can be seen filled with various
gifts.
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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.
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view of bed head with one of the chest of drawers.
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25 ft long dining table made for Sledmere House, Driffield
Yorkshire.
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Mahogany and birds-eye-maple veneered jewellery
box |
Refectory table in burr-oak
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Sideboard in mahogany
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Library folding chair shown both open and folded
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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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