Studio Rene Siebum

2026 . New Project . 🏔️🏡 🌲

For a new, special and also personal project I ordered almost a whole Larch tree 🌲 to work with. As the project will be part of an old summer farmhouse in the Swiss 🇨🇭 mountains I wanted the wood to be from the alpine region. I ordered 3 meter lengths but the somehow there was a slight mix up and the 6 meter lengths 6,5 cm thickness where a little overwhelming.. but a nice challenge to take on and noting we cant handle 💪🏼.

The slow growing in the cold mountain area made it a true beauty and gave the tree its A class quality. It will be a true joy to work with 🍀🪚.

I will document the process from tree to final so more updates will follow soon!

#🏔️ #🏡 #🇨🇭

2025 . Wooden Temple . Nara

Even the best craftsman misses the nail once in a while…

Today I was in Nara, Japan saw this overwhelming wooden temple. An amazing construction that stood for almost a 1000 years. The Todai-ji temple was built to house the biggest Buddha statue (16 meters high) in the middle of the now kown Nara park.
There construction itself is made of wood, measures 48 meters high and 55 meters wide. It’s been repaired from fires twice and is now open to the public.

The scale is immense and to see this up close is a great inspiration of what was already possible then in the material that I love the most. The details even on this scale are impressive let alone the size of the beams and the amount of trees needed.

It’s also reassuring to see that even the best craftsman missed the nail once in while 😉.

-jitemple

2025 . Maple . Capsule

Maple Capsule | 177 mm