About Reihax

What is made

Reihax makes handmade objects in veneer and intarsia. The work does not follow a single mode: some pieces are geometric, with clear edges, repeatable patterns and controlled order. Others are organic, symbolic, calligraphic, or grow directly out of what the material suggests.

What stays the same across all forms is, first of all, precision: closed joints, clean edges, flat surfaces. Added to that are a controlled composition, a strong combination of materials and a calm effect that lasts for years. If one of these is missing, the piece is not finished.

Most objects are at the scale of a desk and a hand: pen holders, decorative panels, small everyday objects. Small formats can be made more precisely and checked more consistently. They also make it possible to develop several pieces in parallel and compare combinations directly before a piece is finished.

The workshop

Reihax began as a hobby. The pleasure of wood and of working precisely led to the first pieces, and the first pieces led to a workshop. Today Reihax is a small workshop in Germany with exactly one person: design, choice of wood, cutting, assembly, finish and photography are all in one pair of hands.

The work is done in small batches of usually two to five pieces. The laser cuts the pattern parts directly from the file; the knife takes care of straight edges and trimming. Two things always stay handwork: choosing the wood for every piece, and fitting the parts. Most of the time goes into fitting and sanding, and that is where a piece succeeds or fails (small-batch production).

The name

I had long wanted a company of my own. While I was studying I wondered what it could be called, but a good name simply would not come to me. So I wrote a small program that generated random, good-sounding names. One of them was Reihax, and I fell in love with it at once.

Material and choice

Reihax works with seven woods: wenge, oak, ash, walnut and mahogany, plus maple and cherry. Another wood is added when it is workable, stable and makes sense in the composition. Where the veneer comes from and what happens to the offcuts is described under wood and sustainability.

The choice follows no list of brands and no trend. What matters is what the material achieves together with other species: its contrast, its grain, its stability under the cutting tool and how it reacts to the hard-wax oil that every Reihax piece is finished with. Some species are fascinating, but too dominant or too hard to combine; they are waiting for the right piece.

The worst thing a material can do is become unpredictable: crumbling at the edges, warped, unstable. Precision depends on the material cooperating.

CherryCut and how to find the work

Reihax objects are available through CherryCut, a platform that lets buyers design their own pieces or adapt existing designs. CherryCut changes how the work reaches people. It does not change what is made or with what care.

On CherryCut, the Reihax shop belongs to the charity club: CherryCut donates 1 % of its members' order value to non-profit organisations. How that works and what has been donated so far is shown on CherryCut's transparency page.

Anyone who wants a piece of their own designs it themselves: with DEIN TEXT HIER you choose the text, the font and the woods freely in the editor on CherryCut. For anything beyond that, such as a logo, a wall piece made to order or corporate gifts, there is the contact page. Such pieces are built like all the others, part by part from wood (personalised wooden objects).

THINK BIGGER

THINK BIGGER is a message for the desk. The pen holder stands where someone works every day, and the lettering is meant to remind that person to think bigger than the task in front of them. The name speaks to the owner, not to the workshop (THINK BIGGER).

Still at the beginning

Reihax is still at the beginning. There is no single piece that counts as a final statement; every piece teaches something for the next. Every combination that did not work is a limit that is now known.

The direction for the next years is clear: more wall art like Flow and Fracture, and more personalised pieces with names, sayings, logos and regional motifs. What does not change is the standard: precision first, and a piece that surprises at first touch because it is made entirely of inlaid wood.