Polhavn Woodfabrik
is an atelier designing and creating custom, handcarved wood pieces. Objects
crafted range from signs and furniture to artistic decoration and sculpture.
Specialities include rustic furniture from the Alaskan forest to foreign-style
folkcrafts. Select -quality local white spruce and paper birch, supplemented
with alder, aspen and willow, are featured. Many works are executed in basswood
and pine since Philip Marshall, the owner and woodcarver, has been trained
in the European tradition using these woods. He uses hand gouges and chisels
with a mallet in the Swiss-German style; he doesn’t own a Foredom
or Dremel power tool.
We invite you
to peruse our image gallery on this introductory page and in the subsections
noted in the lefthand margin. If you do not see want you want, we welcome
enquiries through the addresses at the bottom of the page. We can help in
the design, choice of materials, size, and finish (and installation, if
local), then provide a timeline and pricing, including shipping.
Image Gallery
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This high relief was carved by Marshall and his teacher, Pietro Vinotti. It is of Belle Herbert, a Gwichin Athabaskan Indian of Chalkyitsik, Alaska, who lived to be, in all likelihood, over 120 years old, dying in 1982. 1996, basswood, 34x22x6 in.
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Blanket chest with paper birch top, handcut dovetails, handcarved Hawaiian floral reliefs, and brass furniture. 2005, birch and pine with brass, 37x18x19 in.
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