Craftsmanship in Wood

A friend of mine just send me this picture. He ran into this porch and thought it would be worth sharing.
To be honest it seems a little bit misplaced on this facade but it is some amazing carpentry. Unfortunately it seems as it has been painted. I wonder how it is made, wether it is all solid wood or maybe some laminated pieces which I have seen on recent pieces of compangon. Maybe it is just prime material with very tight joinery? It is hard to say from the picture.

Anyway a very beautiful piece and I wanted to share it with you all.

Any chance you could reduce the photo size? It's all pixelated and way too wide.

Mathiew,

I took the liberty of re-sizing your photo. I hope you don't mind. Yours displayed OK on my iPad but was quite large on my Mac.

Jack

Ah, guitarde land! Nicely executed, but a bit of a hodgepodge in terms of roof shapes. Trying to do a bit too much perhaps,, which is a criticism one could occasionally level at French trad. carpentry. I often think that if more people saw things like these in their daily life, maybe more people would want them and maybe carpenters would have more interesting work. One can dream, at least...

Thanks for sharing Mathieu, and re-size work appreciated Jack.

~C

WOW!

As an architect and mere neophyte when it comes to joinery I can only appreciate it. Unfortunately, not many other people would, let alone pay for it. Such as it is with anything hand made. It's all about the price.

Wow - what a visual delight.

I should match it by rustling up a contemporary piece of Australian McMansion landfill, knocked together out of LVL with a nail gun - much preferable in my mind /sarc

thanx Jack for resizing. I tried to get it right but it didn't seem to work so I just deleted the original since we still have the resized picture.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hello, I'm a newbee on this forum. I'm a french carpenter doing mostly carpentry set building for movie, tv, theater.
This looks like the entrance to some compagnon house, maybe a place where they study or live while on the "tour".
It's contemporary work and I would say north of France because of the brick architecture.
Pretty flashy improvisation on the guitarde theme!

I have seen this structure before in pictures. I would love to see it in person. The French certainly are very good at this (and of course many others) type of structure and joinery. I was able to teach this word to a lovely French lady who lives here. She was seemed delighted (and surprised) to have been taught a French word by an American. Thank you for sharing.

I was wondering wether this post needed any comment but I think the images speak for themselves.