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A materials board in place of a generic service menu. Category, behaviour and repair — with no species name and no product brand.
Timber and finishes
The species and the finish are the product. Each card below carries the category and one honest line about how that material ages, how it behaves near the sea and how it is repaired.
It moves with humidity: it expands and contracts with the season, and the design has to let that movement happen. It can be sanded back and restored as many times as needed. [CONFIRM species and origin documentation]
Real grain over a stable substrate: the figure of timber without the movement of solid wood. Repair is more delicate, because the veneer is thin. [CONFIRM thickness and supplier]
Stable, flat and predictable — the base of most fitted joinery. Its weak point is the edge and contact with water: sealing and edging decide how long the piece lasts. [CONFIRM range and facing]
Cross-laminated plies: it holds a screw better than MDF and tolerates more moisture, with the exposed edge some pieces use deliberately. [CONFIRM type and glue class]
A film over the timber: it protects well and resists liquids, but when it is scratched the repair is to the whole film, not to the spot. [CONFIRM product and number of coats]
It penetrates rather than covers: the timber keeps its feel and a repair stays local. In exchange it asks for periodic maintenance. [CONFIRM reapplication interval]
A closed colour and an even surface, over panel rather than over visible grain. Touching it up means the piece goes back to the spray booth. [CONFIRM whether there is an in-house spray booth]
Wax gives a low sheen and a dry touch; stain changes the colour without hiding the grain. Both are the easiest finishes to touch up at home. [CONFIRM whether they are offered]
Timber on the coast
A house 200 metres from the sea in Florianópolis is not the same joinery job as a flat in the centre. None of this is opinion: it is specification.
Near the sea, relative humidity swings far more than it does inland. Solid timber expands and contracts with it, and the design has to allow that movement: a groove instead of rigid glue, calculated clearances on doors and drawers, and the dimensional reference chosen for the worst case, not the average.
In panel work, water almost never gets in through the face. It gets in through the edge: the top of a door, a sink cut-out, a foot standing on a wet floor. Sealing the edge and applying the banding properly matter more than any colour choice.
Hinges, runners and handles are metal in salt air. The corrosion class of the hardware is a line in the estimate, not a detail. [CONFIRM which hardware is specified near the sea]
A unit pressed against a wall that breathes collects moisture at the back. A standoff and an air path change the working life of the piece more than any varnish does.
The face turned to the sun shifts tone before the others. That is not a defect, it is how timber behaves — but it has to be said at the moment of choosing, not two years later.
A penetrating finish repairs locally; a film repairs as a whole. Anyone living near the sea should be choosing with the repair in mind, not only with how the piece leaves the workshop.
Pieces
In joinery, people buy what has already been made. The nine images below show the typology of each block of the portfolio and are all stock photographs.
Frequently asked
It depends on the piece, the studio’s queue and the finish chosen — lacquer takes longer than oil, for instance. No lead time was given to the agency and none has been estimated here. [CONFIRM typical lead time from drawing to installation]
This is the question that decides whether the business is a studio or a workshop, and the answer is still open. [CONFIRM whether design and 3D detailing are done in-house, or whether the workshop only builds from the architect’s drawing] The whole “atelier” positioning of this site depends on that answer.
Deposit and balance, instalments, Pix, card — none of it was given to us, and nothing has been assumed. [CONFIRM the payment structure] When a price is published it has to say exactly what it covers: drawing? hardware? finish? installation? delivery? That is required by CDC art. 31 and Decree 5.903/2006.
There is no single answer: solid timber moves with humidity and recovers with sanding; panel is stable and flat but lives or dies by its edge. Near the sea the decision changes weight — see the section on timber on the coast.
It does, if the specification is written for it: movement clearance, sealed edges, hardware with an adequate corrosion class and an air path behind the piece. Without that, salt air and the humidity swing collect in two or three years.
The statutory warranty is 90 days for durable goods and services, under CDC art. 26, II. Anything longer exists only if it is in writing (art. 50). The piece, the installation and the hardware are three separate warranties — the hardware’s is the manufacturer’s and carries its own conditions, which we have not read. [CONFIRM the studio’s warranty terms]
[CONFIRM whether installation is done by an in-house team or subcontracted] It matters in practice: it changes who answers for damage on site and who comes back if something goes out of alignment later.
This site names no timber species at all, native or otherwise. Native Brazilian timber requires legal-origin documentation (DOF/IBAMA plus state controls), and a species name published without it is both a factual and a regulatory problem. [CONFIRM species, supplier and documentation]
Not yet. Every image on this site is stock, marked as a placeholder. No piece photographed here is Wood Art Marcenaria’s, and presenting someone else’s photograph as the studio’s own work would be misrepresentation.
No. It is a speculative mockup built from public information — and in this workshop’s case almost none could be found. The address on our lead sheet, akilar.com.br, belongs to a third-party listings portal, not to them.
A photo, a screenshot, a drawing or the wall measurements. The prior estimate is written, free and without obligation.