Alexander Grabovetskiy carving a Rococo floral cartouche headboard, a custom wood carving in progress.

Interior & Architectural

Architectural Carving

Discipline: Interior & Architectural

Doors, overdoors, and wall panels carved in the eighteenth-century manner. Deep relief and pierced ornament turn a flat plane into architecture, some left in pale limewood, some finished in colour and gold.

In the Atelier

No moulds and no shortcuts. Limewood and oak worked until the grain itself becomes ornament. That slowness is what Baroque relief carving takes.

From the studio of Alexander Grabovetskiy

White-primed Baroque overdoor cartouche with scrolling acanthus and flowers, custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy.

White-painted Baroque cornice crest with acanthus scrolls and flowers, custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy.

Alexander Grabovetskiy shaping acanthus leaves and volutes on a capital in this custom wood carving.

Pair of carved lion-head door panels by Alexander Grabovetskiy, a custom wood carving mounted on paneled doors.

Alexander Grabovetskiy hand-shaping a Baroque shell and acanthus frieze as custom wood carving on his bench.

Deeply carved Baroque acanthus scrollwork panels, a custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy in the workshop.

White-finished Rococo wood panel with floral medallion and scrollwork, a custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy.

Ornate white carved wall panels with floral medallions and acanthus scrolls by Alexander Grabovetskiy, custom wood carving.

Architectural wall panel with floral oval medallion, custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy, painted white.

Ornate white Rococo wall panels with floral cartouches and scrolls, custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy.

Symmetrical Rococo acanthus scroll cartouche hand-carved by Alexander Grabovetskiy, a custom wood carving with white primed finish.

Pair of white Rococo carved wood door panels with floral cartouches by Alexander Grabovetskiy, a custom wood carving.

Unfinished Baroque carved wood components with acanthus and floral scrolls, custom wood carving by Alexander Grabovetskiy.

Alexander Grabovetskiy applies primer to a carved Rococo scroll panel, a custom wood carving in his studio.

In Motion

From the studio

The Practice

The work as historical study

Every commission starts as a research project, not just an order. Before a single cut, the work is to study the piece: to trace a motif back to its period and its masters, to understand how the hand that first carved it thought and moved, and to carry a vanishing skill forward into a new piece, the way carvers have worked for centuries.

A carving from this studio is, for that reason, one of a kind: an interpretation of a historical style, never a copy stamped from a pattern. The grain of the wood, the line of the leaf, the depth of the undercut all record a study and a hand, and no two are ever the same. The studio doesn’t sell a mass-produced object. It delivers a finished carving with the scholarship, the design, and a lifetime of skill behind it. Every piece also keeps a little of a centuries-old art from being lost.

Every Carving Commission starts with a conversation.

Tell me about your project: a single ornament or a full architectural scheme.

Discuss Your Vision