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Your space, your story: Hyejin

Your space, your story: Hyejin

Meet Hyejin from @ambiencecase, an influential designer based in Portland. Her home embodies a harmonious blend of mid-century modern aesthetics and a meticulous selection of natural materials. Each corner of her space is a carefully curated masterpiece, reflecting a...
Mar 14, 2024
Your space, your story: Mai N

Your space, your story: Mai N

Let’s step into the creative world of Mai N @yellomai, an influencer, interior designer, and entrepreneur. Her space is filled with vibrant colors, patterns, and stylishly designed pieces. She has proven that our Laptop Stand works perfectly even without a desk, and ...
Mar 7, 2024
For the love of sustainable design

For the love of sustainable design

Design was, at its conception, primarily about creating effective, beautiful items; then, since the popularization of Bauhaus, functionality took center stage, though aesthetic concerns weren’t abandoned either. We can confidently say that this approach is still most...
Feb 29, 2024
Your space, your story: Cody and Breea

Your space, your story: Cody and Breea

Their workspace is an exquisite blend of elegance, coziness, and earthy vibes. Light colors, natural materials, and carefully selected details create an inviting atmosphere that seems perfect for productive work. To enhance comfort, they’ve chosen Oakywood’s Standing...
Feb 15, 2024
Why do we insist on combining wood with new technologies?

Why do we insist on combining wood with new technologies?

We often emphasize that Oakywood is a product of love for wood and new technologies. Why this particular pair? It’s simpler than you might expect, and the key to answering this question consists of just two words: sustainable development. We see the opportunities dev...
Feb 8, 2024
How to work ergonomically without much space

How to work ergonomically without much space

We are sure that no one here needs any convincing that a well designed and expertly arranged home office is of huge importance in work and in life. However, not everyone has the ability to make their office look like an inspirational instagram post - they simply don’...
Jan 25, 2024
How multitasking kills productivity

How multitasking kills productivity

The beginning of each year is when our New Year’s resolutions are still freshly exciting, our motivation levels are high, and we feel ready to pursue them with ferocity. Unfortunately, that’s where we often run into problems, especially if our plans are very ambitiou...
Jan 18, 2024
Why should you take time off at the end of the year?

Why should you take time off at the end of the year?

The last weeks of December are filled with shimmering lights and the smell of gingerbread cookies, which makes for a perfect moment and atmosphere to slow down, sit back, and forget about your responsibilities (especially the professional ones). To begin the new year...
Dec 20, 2023
2023 at Oakywood – the yearly recap

2023 at Oakywood – the yearly recap

The end of the year is a magical time – that’s when we often realize just how fast time flows and how, in a blink of an eye, another 12 months have passed by. It encourages us to sum up our year and reflect: think of all the things we have managed to achieve, what ch...
Dec 14, 2023
Laptop Dock and Laptop Stand: what’s new?

Laptop Dock and Laptop Stand: what’s new?

Every now and then, even the iconic favorites need to be refreshed and perfected. At Oakywood, we make sure our accessories are tailored to our clients’ needs – hence, apart from coming up with new solutions, we regularly analyze our existing products and their usabi...
Dec 7, 2023
Christmas presents? Think them through!

Christmas presents? Think them through!

The most wonderful time of the year is right around the corner: cozy interiors, festive atmosphere, meeting with your family and friends, but also tons of food waste, wrong gifts, and plastic scraps drifting merrily through our seas and oceans. How can we stop this c...
Nov 30, 2023
A sustainable Black Friday: what to buy?

A sustainable Black Friday: what to buy?

With thousands of Black Friday offers competing for your attention, you can feel compelled to make rash shopping decisions which inadvertently overflow landfills. To avoid drowning in the ocean of sales, keep your cool and don’t get swept up by the waves of discounts...
Nov 23, 2023
wooden desk cable grommet

Configurator 2.0 – new and improved

Personalized products and services are becoming more and more commonplace – according to a 2022 report by Salesforce, 73% of customers want brands to understand their unique wants and needs, while 56% expects for their offers to be personalized. Oakywood’s configurat...
Nov 16, 2023
oakywood forest planting team

We planted a forest again!

On one special day each year, Oakywood’s employees get up from their desks or get out of the workshop to meet somewhere in Poland, somewhere even the navigation struggles to find. We grab spades and begin to dig holes which will be home to oak, linden, maple, elm, po...
Nov 9, 2023
black desk setup with macbook

A sustainable approach to Black Friday

Black Friday is one of the most important holidays in every bargain hunter’s calendar. It is also one of the bleakest days for our planet. The carbon footprint generated by our rife overconsumption results in ongoing environmental degradation and brings us ever close...
Nov 2, 2023
How the past and the present shape the future of design?

How the past and the present shape the future of design?

Artists taking inspiration from old styles and reinterpreting them in the modern key, the ever repeating trend cycle, bold or subtle callbacks to the bygone eras, and combining the ‘old’ with the ‘new’ - are common themes in design, fashion, architecture, or art. Why...
Oct 26, 2023
macbook pro on classic wooden desk

People of design: Aleksandra Ciesielska

We have been working on a unique offer to accommodate our business clients for some time now and today, we can proudly say that the Oakywood for Business offer is live. To get to know our new customers a little better, we asked a few chosen interior designers some qu...
Oct 19, 2023
magsafe iphone stand

Why is design so important?

Creating products which effortlessly combine beauty with functionality is of utmost importance for everyone here at Oakywood; our accessories are all meticulously designed and thoroughly tested for their usefulness. Since design is one of the key aspects of our brand...
Oct 5, 2023
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