About

Nestled amidst the glacier carved mountains of Pennsylvania, we began creating hand-carved wooden spoons over 30 years ago. Our work is inspired by traditional American treenware with a contemporary design sense. Over the years, we expanded our work to include a variety of kitchenware and now custom furniture for the whole house. We use local, regional, and salvaged hardwoods, always keeping in mind sustainable forestry practices. Many of our pieces are made from trees harvested from our 65 acre property.

People have always used woodenware for cooking. Consider our utensils as heirlooms that you can be proud to pass along to future generations. Each piece is hand carved using traditional woodcarving tools such as gouges, mallet and drawknife and shaped with an intensive sanding process. The wood grain is raised several times with hot water and then sanded down with a three-part sanding process. After the last sanding, pieces are immersed in a mineral oil bath and then buffed with a protective, non-toxic beeswax finish.

After many years we expanded our artistic inspiration to include custom made furniture inspired by the beauty and uniqueness of our Eastern forests. We enjoy sourcing the perfect piece of wood for custom designed kitchen counter tops, tables and benches, and our signature coffee tables paired with antique sewing machine bases. Combining the spectacular colors of cherry, maple, and walnut, each piece is one of a kind.

Many of our customers have become our friends over the years and we have enjoyed hearing family stories including our unique work. We hope you will enjoy our work for years to come as you cherish life through the act of feeding loved ones and gathering as family and friends!

Bob DeWitt & Dominique Vallon DeWitt

The view from the DeWitt’s house, a showcase of Pennsylvania hardwoods commonly used in our work.

Paintings by Dominique Vallon

About Dominique vallon

Born and educated in the City of Lights Paris France Dominique Vallon is the fourth of a family of five children. She was a self-reflecting girl who enjoyed drawing and painting. Her aspiration was to be an artist, a painter. She spent lots of her childhood and teenage years going to Museums to admire the works of the Masters. Her favorites were the impressionists’ painters especially “Le muse de l’Orangerie” where Monet’s Waterlilies are exhibited.

She also liked adventures so in 1969 she went to England as an Au Pair, took classes at the University, met her future and present husband, an American, had her first child there. The three of them moved to the US where two more children were born. She found a little bit of time for drawing nude models one evening a week surrounded by other artists at the local College.

In 1995 after her third and youngest child left the nest she rented a studio space in Bedford Pennsylvania, a very quaint small town, 20 miles away from her home. She painted, did some illustrations for a local boutique and a Café-Restaurant where she became a “regular”. She worked on her illustrations for her written stories.

In 1998 she went to visit the newly restored house, studio and gardens of her mentor Claude Monet. Back from her trip her studio space became too small for her large work so she rented one across the street the size of a ballroom with wood flooring and eight large windows. There she painted her “Water Gardens Serie” for the following seven years.

The next ten years she battled chronic illness, major surgery and lengthy recovery. Winter 2014-2015 was a great turning point when she transformed the spare bedroom into her studio and started painting again, of course the first paintings were snow scenes. Her paintings have been getting larger in size. She has hung a collection of 22 paintings at the Horn O’ Plenty Farm-to-Table Restaurant in Wolfsburg just outside Bedford Pennsylvania for the summer and has participated in the Allegany Arts Council’s “Start to Finish” studio show and the annual En Plein Air community category.