The brothers Manuel Jesús and José Luis Sequera belong to the fourth generation of a family tradition of carpenters. Retaining a craft essence, they do all kinds of woodwork, especially restoring and reproducing doors and antique furniture as well as making their own designs.

In making… doors they use traditional techniques: dovetailed tenons and mortises, chamfered, moulded and grooved door rails and smooth or carved panels. The woods used are maritime pine, and for door panels, cedar, oak and walnut. Normally, where possible, they seek to use salvaged woodwork, as well as recycled metal fittings.

Another large section of their workshop is for cabinetmaking, where they craft all kinds of furniture, whether reproducing old models or applying their own designs. The woods they use most for furniture are Spanish walnut, cherry, cedar, maritime pine and oak. The techniques used are those learned from their forebears.

They always use hand tools: planes, spokeshaves, cabinetmaker’s knives, etc. For traditional finishes they use waxes, oils, shellac, gilt, polychrome, etc.

They say that what they most enjoy is restoration, reviving the beauty of objects created long ago, respecting the creation process and the techniques by which they were crafted.