Paul E.

"Handcrafted Tables and furniture from rescued barnwood. Chainsaw sculpture, and Barn Art, all built to outlast us all."
Paul Ebert has been building from reclaimed wood for nearly 20 years from his shop in Delevan, New York — in the heart of Cattaraugus County farm country.
What started as a farm table built for his wife became Paul's Green Barn — a studio practice spanning handcrafted furniture, chainsaw sculpture, CNC wall art, and what Paul calls Barn Art — assemblage pieces built from authentic agricultural artifacts mounted on actual barn material. Horse collars, hand-forged hardware, slate roof shingles, leather harness tack — objects that worked on Western New York farms for generations, given a second life as wall installations.
Every piece of wood Paul works with was rescued from historic barns and buildings scheduled for demolition — some of it 150 years old or more. The nail holes, the checks, the weathered grey surface, the adze marks left by the hands that shaped these beams — these are not flaws to be corrected. They are the material speaking for itself.
Paul's furniture work ranges from massive hand hewn oak barn beam benches and coffee tables to custom dining tables that have found homes across numerous states. His Yakisugi accent pieces — reclaimed barnwood charred using the ancient Japanese technique, hand brushed and oiled — bring the same material philosophy to smaller, more accessible forms. His chainsaw sculpture work spans intimate wildlife pieces to eight-foot standing bears.
"Every table carries an inscription burned or written on the underside — client name, completion date, maker's mark. When this furniture passes to the next generation, as it is built to do, the story of its making travels with it."
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