Taxus has been selected by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation and INTBAU Spain as the master craftsperson of the month for November 2024.
Javier Martín specialises in the craft of traditional and ornamental wood-turning. He works at Taxus, his country studio in Vilarmaior (La Coruña). There he stores and naturally dries his raw materials as well as showing and selling his work. By preference he uses native woods, both dry and green. He renders them with natural oils, priming with water-based or nitrocellulose varnish and applying natural beeswax and carnauba polishes as finishes.
As a craftsman he seeks to draw out his work’s aesthetic and functional potential. This can be seen in objects such as the newel posts for stairs which he often makes for refurbished or new houses, as well as in balusters, furniture legs, door knobs and a whole range of functional and decorative artefacts.
You can discover more about their work and activity in their profile in the Spanish Network of Traditional Building Crafts Masters:
