Quiet Craft for Everyday Rituals.
Thoughtful solid-wood objects for the table, desk and dresser.
Why MonoWood exists
Most people choose their things carefully and then give no thought at all to what those things sit on.
The power strip and its tangle live on the floor behind the desk. Tissues come in a cardboard box with a brand printed across it. The hot pan goes down on a folded tea towel. The tea is in the foil bag it was sold in. None of it is a disaster — it just doesn't match the care that went into choosing anything else in the room.
A dining table, a desk, a dresser top: three surfaces a person actually uses every day, and usually the three least considered surfaces in the house.
That gap is the whole reason MonoWood exists.
We make solid wood things for the top of those surfaces — trivets that store as an object and come apart under a hot pan, tissue boxes cut from one piece rather than assembled from panels, a slatted box that swallows a power strip, canisters that seal twice, a reading rest that raises and turns. Useful objects, in a material worth looking at.
Three rules we don't move on
Solid wood, never veneer over particleboard. On solid wood the grain runs through the corner and onto the next face; on a veneered box it stops at a seam. You can check that on any piece we sell the day it arrives.
The wood is named — by its real name. Walnut, wutan wood, cherry, ash, maple, beech — every product page says which species the piece is actually cut from, and which part is which when a piece uses more than one. We don't write "wood" and leave it there, and we don't borrow a more expensive name. Wutan (乌檀木) is a dense, close-grained Asian hardwood that the trade routinely sells as "ebony" or "black sandalwood". It is neither, so we call it wutan.
We don't print a promise we can't keep on every piece. Until recently every product page here carried the line "wood wax oil, not lacquer". It wasn't true of every piece in the range, so we took it off rather than leave it sitting there. What the pages say now is what we can stand behind: the species, the measured sizes, what is in the box and what isn't. If you want to know exactly how a particular piece is finished, email us and we'll tell you.
How it's made, honestly
We're a small design studio in Hong Kong, started in 2025. We design and specify every piece — the proportions, the species, the wall thickness, the magnets, the tolerances — and a hardwood workshop we work with in China builds it to that spec. We're not going to tell you we're the ones at the bench. We are the ones who decide the corner has to be solid, and who pull a sample when it isn't.
We're a new studio. We'd rather earn a place on your table than claim one.
— Jack, founder, MonoWood Studio
Buying from us
- Tracked international delivery is available to 68 countries and regions listed in our Shipping Policy. Rates, order-value limits, and delivery estimates vary by destination.
- No P.O. Box delivery. All shipping services require a complete, eligible physical street address.
- Free shipping thresholds: US/Canada/Sweden from $79; UK and eligible EU destinations from $129; Australia and all other supported destinations except Japan from $149. Japan has a $7.99 shipping rate with no free-shipping offer.
- Duties are prepaid for US and Canada orders. Other destinations may have taxes or import charges collected at checkout or on import; our Shipping Policy explains the destination rules.
- Returns are handled in the United States — Jersey City, New Jersey. Our 30-day voluntary return policy is in addition to mandatory consumer rights that apply in the buyer's country.
- Damaged in transit? Email photos within 7 days so we can arrange a replacement or refund. This request does not limit longer statutory rights for hidden defects.
- A real person answers every email, usually within one business day: info@monowoodstudio.com
MonoWood Studio was founded in 2025 and is operated by MonoWood Hong Kong Limited, a registered Hong Kong company (Business Registration No. 79328186).
We design and specify our range; a hardwood workshop we work with in China builds it to that specification. Orders are dispatched from our fulfillment partner in China.
Destination availability, costs, delivery estimates, taxes, and returns are set out in our Shipping Policy, Refund Policy, and FAQ. For anything else, write to us.