Tasmanian Oak
June 2, 2020
Tasmanian Oak is the preferred hardwood for a wide range of applications; scantlings, panelling, flooring, glulam spans, veneers, plywood, furniture. Fibre for reconstituted board and the production of high-quality paper.
Quality Assurance Program
June 2, 2020
Tasmanian Timber’s Quality Assurance Program delivers confidence
Spence & Lyda - Making Local
May 4, 2020
“Furniture should never be seen as a fashion statement. Things have to have a story, resonate with you, and actually have meaning to you." "It's just not sustainable for us to be importing everything we sell. So that's why it's important if we're making here, to use our woods, and so we do... especially with so much talent here, so much great raw product, why wouldn't we?” — Fiona Lyda, Spence & Lyda
Spence & Lyda - Buying for Life
May 4, 2020
“There is that layer to sustainability that is about not overt use of energies and maintaining the materials of the planet. For me, it's more that, the piece itself will live forever and not be thrown out, which is its own story I guess." — Fiona Lyda, Spence & Lyda
The Innate Collection
May 4, 2020
“The Innate Collection" became about who we are as Australian’s. We were trying to understand and drill down to what is innate in an Australian." - Fiona Lyda, Spence & Lyda
Broached Goulder - Exclusively Tasmanian Timbers
February 12, 2020
“If I'm going to take a collection of furniture to the World then I want to represent Australia, I wouldn't import timber from America or Europe; I'm representing my country, and Tasmanian timbers are renown for their beauty and accessibility; it's a great fit.” — Jon Goulder, Designer + Maker
Broached Goulder - Environmental Custodianship
February 12, 2020
“There's an essential environmental custodianship now. So, how do we sustainably use the resources that we have? How do we express through design the most beautiful articulation of those timbers in form, and how do we celebrate the local in a sustainable fashion? We use local because it talks to the story that we're telling, which is essentially an Australian one.” — Lou Weis, Broached Commissions
Broached Goulder
February 12, 2020
“This collection is easily the best work I’ve ever done. It has such a deeper meaning and feeling and context. I don’t think pieces like this have been made before.” - Jon Goulder, Designer + Maker
Jon Goulder on Sustainability
March 22, 2019
"I think being Australian is about having a sense of place, a connection to the nature we're surrounded by. I'm quite patriotic in that sense"
Jon Goulder - Tasmanian Timber Ambassador
February 12, 2019
"As an Australian and as I began to exhibit more internationally I thought, If I'm showing my work in Milan or New York why would I use timber from another country"
Innate Night
July 2, 2018
"I'm proud to be the designer that's bringing Australian Timbers to this industry." - Jon Goulder, Jon Goulder Design Studio
Simon Ancher Studio
May 23, 2018
"Boatbuilding techniques, cold-moulding and strip planking. - It's really quite amazing what you can do with timber" - Simon Ancher, Simon Ancher Studio
Freycinet Lodge Coastal Pavilions
May 21, 2018
"We love using Tasmanian Timber. By using Tasmanian Oak we know that we are getting good quality timber." - Michael Lane, Cordwell Lane
Circa Morris-Nunn Architects
May 21, 2018
"We belong to a place and utilise the products of that place" - Robert Morris-Nunn, Circa Morris-Nunn Architects
