Standard Practice works across architecture, design and craft, from their studio-workshop in Copenhagen. Schooled in the joinery and architectural traditions, our work is a celebration of material and craft. We are deeply committed to the belief that good design enhances how people live and work. Made by hand from materials chosen to age well, our pieces are built to be kept, growing more beautiful with use and earning their place across a lifetime.

American cherry, a timber that changes colour for years

Cherry leaves the workshop pale, almost pink. Within a few years of daylight it turns a deep amber, and the tables Standard Practice builds in it are drawn with that shift in mind: thick tops, plain frames, nothing that would look wrong once the wood has darkened. The studio is a studio-workshop in Copenhagen, where architecture, design and joinery are practised under one roof. Its position is simple and stated plainly: good design changes how people live and work, and a piece of furniture should be kept, not replaced.

The Lola Table Classic takes its proportions from the Italian farmhouse table (the long, heavy kind a family eats at twice a day). A slab of American cherry sits on a straightforward frame; the joinery is visible, which is the point. The Lola Table Round carries the same build onto a circular top. Standard Practice relates its proportions to Italian and Roman architecture, and in use it does what round dining tables do best: no head of the table, six people in a conversation. Both tables can be made in custom dimensions. Among the dining tables at The Oblist, few in solid cherry can be ordered to measure.

The Standard Bed sets two timbers side by side. Douglas fir, soft and strongly figured, meets maple, pale and tight-grained, and the contrast is the only decoration. The headboard curves slightly. The base is finished with a cap and opens for storage underneath, a detail that matters in a city bedroom where linen and winter clothes have to live somewhere. The Standard Bed is a designer bed in the Danish joinery tradition at its most literal: solid wood, honest joints, surfaces meant to be touched. Standard Practice finishes it to be lived with rather than protected.

The Oblist presents Standard Practice to private clients and to architects and interior designers in Europe and the United States. Species, dimensions and custom-size options are listed on the product pages. Professionals specifying the tables or the bed for a residence, a boutique hotel or an office can order through the Architect Trade Program, which covers made-to-measure requests and project pricing.