Pijus Kazlauskas✓Co-owner of Wood Architects, Lithuanian premium sauna manufacturer·yesterday·5 min read
Inside the Lithuanian workshop where every sauna is built by hand
Most outdoor saunas sold in Europe are not built by the company whose name is on them. They are made in factories on the other side of the world, shipped flat-packed in containers, and badged with local brands at the importer's warehouse. There is nothing inherently wrong with that model, but it produces a specific kind of product, and a specific kind of relationship between the maker and the owner.
We do not work that way. Every Wood Architects sauna that ships from our facility was built in Klaipėda, Lithuania, by the same small team that has been working together since 2014. This is what that actually looks like, and why it matters for a product designed to last fifteen years.
## A 2,000 square metre workshop and a small team
The workshop sits on the western edge of Klaipėda, in a flat industrial district with the Baltic ten kilometres away. Two thousand square metres of production space, organised around the two product lines we build: the Signature cube saunas and the traditional barrel range. At any given time there are usually somewhere between three and six saunas in various stages of construction on the floor.
