Calacatta Butcher Block 90 — Standing

QORZAVEN Islands — the room's centre of gravity

The Calacatta is where knives are welcome: end-grain oak glued for a lifetime of chopping, drawbored hardwood legs that never learn to wobble, and a food-safe oil finish that sands back to new whenever you decide.

Islands carry the room, so theirs is structural carpentry: torsion-stiff carcases under stone loads, mitred waterfall edges falling like cut rock, and services — power, water, extraction — routed at drawing stage rather than regretted at fitting. Seating overhangs are engineered, not hoped.

Design & Craft

• Installed and levelled to the millimetre by our own fitters
• 5 years on cabinetry and frames; parts stocked 15
• Services planned first: power, water and extraction routed in the plinth
• Legs and frames in solid hardwood, drawbored — no wobble, ever
• End-grain oak and beech tops, 60–90 mm, glued for a lifetime of knives
• Food-safe oil finish; knife scars sand out, character stays

Specifications

Care

Oil worktops and blocks when they whisper grey — monthly at first, seasonally after. Standing water is the only real enemy; the supplied oil and cloth are the whole toolkit.

Questions, Answered

What size island fits my room?
The honest rule is a metre of walkway on working sides. Send the plan; we draw the largest island that never makes you sidestep.

Does an island need services in the floor?
Power usually, water and extraction only if the plan puts cooking or washing there. We map routes at survey — before floors are a decision you regret.

The QORZAVEN Promise

Five years on cabinetry, hinges and runners cycle-rated to two hundred thousand closes, and parts on the shelf for fifteen — doors, drawers, dampers and feet included.