Houska Butcher Block 60
Tax included where applicable. Delivery and commissioning arranged by your concierge.
QORZAVEN Islands — the room's centre of gravity
Butchers figured out worktops first; the Houska inherits the trade — 60 to 90 mm of end-grain, honest scars to come, and undershelf or castor options for the way your kitchen actually moves.
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
- Food-safe oil finish; knife scars sand out, character stays
- Overhangs cantilevered on concealed steel, knee-room certified
- End-grain oak and beech tops, 60–90 mm, glued for a lifetime of knives
- Soft-close everything; edges rounded where hips pass
- 5 years on cabinetry and frames; parts stocked 15
- Installed and levelled to the millimetre by our own fitters
Specifications
| Top | End-grain oak, 60 mm |
| Frame | Solid hardwood, drawbored |
| Finish | Food-safe oil, renewable |
| Options | Undershelf / drawer / castors |
| Weight | ≈ 29.8 kg |
| Warranty | 5 yr structure, parts 15 |
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.
How much seating overhang is safe?
Engineered per top: typically 300 mm unsupported in stone with concealed steel where more is wanted. The drawing states it; physics signs it.
The QORZAVEN Promise
Kitchens are commissioned, not delivered. Our own fitters install, level, seal and connect; appliances are commissioned to their manuals; and the packaging leaves with us.