Brand history

I’m the creator of Deerhorn and I’m very happy that you came to this place. I want to tell you how it all started.

To start with an interesting fact – did you know that wood can survive for up to 2000 years in a room with constant temperature and humidity? Isn’t it fascinating how durable a material it is?

Wooden furniture can be successfully passed from generation to generation.

Serve successive family members. Connect them with their ancestors as they slide their hand over the same piece of wood, discovering the dents and scratches that successive people have left on the desk top over the years.

As they studied at it, they sketched their brilliant ideas on the pages of their notebooks, wrote down in their diaries their inspirations, plans, dreams for the future, and perhaps the business strategies that would bring them closer to that future….

It’s quite like discovering in oneself talents and passions that, all along, were outlined in the genes and passed down in the family from generation to generation.

It doesn’t start with “a long, long time ago…”

It has its official beginning in 2019, when the first project was created.

A desk that I created for my own use, for my dream office. An office that I strenuously wanted to furnish myself, but in hundreds of stores I was unable to find even one piece of furniture at the sight of which my heart would kill harder.

Frustrated and resigned, I grasped at a crazy idea. Why not create a desk from scratch? I had a vision, I knew exactly how my piece of furniture should look.

I didn’t risk anything – if it doesn’t work out, after all, I can go back to the store search. I designed the frame, ordered the wooden top. Step by step I combined the elements, watching with delight as something only mine was created.

I tenderly oiled the wood centimeter by centimeter, discovering some therapeutic power in it. And guess what? It worked!

After the desk, which delighted not only me, but a whole bunch of people after the photos were published online, it was time for more challenges – dressers, cabinets, bookcases.

Sales were going great, production was gaining momentum, and every now and then I changed the studio to a new, bigger one. I couldn’t believe that a single desk project could turn into my dream job.

I kept wondering why I had such an impulse to create furniture from wood… It turned out that for the answer I had to go back to the 1950s.

Then my grandfather Francis took his first steps in carpentry. When everything was in short supply, he built his workshop step by step, learned and produced more and more complicated objects from wood – bulbs, barrels, stools, tables, kitchen accessories and garden tools.

And although my grandfather didn’t manage to teach me his trade, I think he passed on to me what was most important – a love of wood, of working with it, the joy of handmade objects and a passion for it.

I just had to discover it.

I guess, however, it all started “a long, long time ago…”.

Rafał