Fogo Island Workshops

Inspiration Doorstops are simple inventions with a purpose universally understood and respected; we’re not presumptuous enough to believe that we can add all that much utility to an item that...

Inspiration Add an elevated yet natural spreader to your best sourdough. The juniper knife was designed as a butter spreader for the Fogo Island Inn. These small wonders hold steady...

Found in all our rooms at the Fogo Island Inn, these handcrafted wooden soap dishes are made across the road in the Fogo Island Workshops. Each dish is paired with...

Inspiration The fishing stage is an iconic and integral part of Outport Newfoundland. They stand delicately and perilously above the water and is where the inshore fishery brought its bounty...

Makers Fogo Island Workshops x Wood Materials Yellow Birch Dimensions  420 L × 220 W × 18 D mm – Round 410 L × 230 W × 18 D mm – Square 520 L × 175 W × 18 D mm – Rectangle   Designed...

Inspiration You can’t make something more valuable by making it more complicated. Obsess about the ornate and you’ll lose sight of the big picture: the bounty of beautiful wood that...

Details Specs Made To Order 10–12 wks Designer Donna Wilson Solid. A dependable character of the highest sorts. This chair is named after Bertha Wilson, Canada’s first female Supreme Court Justice,...

Inspiration Originally designed for the Fogo Island Inn, Our Waste Baskets are super normal. Reveling in their plainness they don’t need to shout to call your attention. They’re both gratifyingly...

Inspiration The generic flower patterns and bland-off colours of tissue boxes don’t belong amongst the treasures with which you’ve carefully chosen on your desk or shelf. The solid wood tissue...

Details Specs Inspiration Solid. A dependable character of the highest sorts, the namesake of the Bertha chair is Bertha Wilson. The name came out of a conversation that the designer,...

Details Specs Inspiration The Premises collection connects the experience of living in salt box houses of the past with the needs of urban people today. Putting design in its place...

Details Specs Inspiration Who doesn’t want a puppy? Loyal, playful, delectably lopsided. And at your heels whenever you need them. This simple design of this puppy lifts the feeling of...

Details Specs Inspiration Putting design in its place means even a small space. A Fogo Islander commented “We didn’t have much but enough was enough.” The small salt box houses...

Details Specs Inspiration Who doesn’t want a puppy? Loyal, playful, delectably lopsided. And at your heels whenever you need them. This simple design of this puppy lifts the feeling of...

Inspiration You’re not beautiful unless you’re useful in Newfoundland and luckily the peg rail works hard at whatever you ask it to do in style. Use in a bathroom, mudroom,...

Details Specs Inspiration Entertaining and hospitality are core to the culture of Outport Newfoundland. Visiting and gathering were part of daily life with no pretense or pomp and circumstance. The...

Details Specs Inspiration Entertaining and hospitality are core to the culture of Outport Newfoundland. Visiting and gathering were part of daily life with no pretense or pomp and circumstance. The...

Details Specs Inspiration The plain-spoken Bench won’t steal the show but is happy to play a supporting role wherever it may be performing. The long variety could serve in a...

Details Specs Inspiration Putting design in its place means even a small space. A Fogo Islander commented “We didn’t have much but enough was enough.” The shed in Outport Newfoundland...

Details Specs Inspiration Fogo Islanders know that nature knows best.Trees know to grow the strongest, sturdiest curves as they emerge from under the ground and reach up into the unforgiving...