European oak railroad tracks — the kind that carried trains across the continent for decades — came down somewhere and became available as raw material. The beams are massive, dense, and marked with a century of use: iron stains from the rails, compression lines, surface character that cleaned up to reveal beautiful quarter-sawn oak underneath.
The frame is built entirely with mortise-and-tenon joints, cut by hand. No metal fasteners in the structure. Each joint is laid out, sawn on the waste side, and chiselled back to the line — one at a time.
