Peña Urey Studio

We've noticed quite a few new faces around here lately, so we thought we'd take a moment to reintroduce ourselves.

We're Jina and Derek, the husband-and-wife team behind Perey Studio.

Somehow, what felt like a little side adventure turned into a decade of making furniture. This year marks 10 years since we began our journey in 2016.

What started as a shared love of design, woodworking, and creating with our hands has grown into a family studio rooted in the belief that the things we live with every day can be beautiful, useful, and made to last.

These days, everyone seems to be talking about AI, automation, and the future of work. Meanwhile, we're still over here moving heavy slabs of wood around and making sawdust.

And while technology can do incredible things, it has only strengthened our appreciation for work that remains deeply human.

The kind that requires patience, skill, problem-solving, and occasionally realizing the tape measure was in your pocket the whole time.

Thank you for being here and for supporting independent craftsmanship over the past 10 years. We're grateful you're along for the ride 🙏🏼

Elena | Custom Buffet Cabinet

A tribute to the magic of spalted wood 🪵✨️🍄

When a tree dies or has otherwise been stressed, fungi can infiltrate it in waves of primary and secondary colonizers. The first wave captures and controls the wood’s resources, even changing the pH of the wood and its structure. This first wave of invading fungi then has to defend against the second wave of colonizers. What we see as beautiful lines in the wood are actually boundaries drawn by different fungal colonies defending their territory.

These fungal boundaries are the reason that there is no regular pattern or logic to designs. This is the uniqueness of spalted wood, and this is one of the many reasons we continue to pursue this fascinating art form 🙏🏻

Custom dining table legs from teak ✨️

This piece was made with large tenons between the stretchers and the legs to ensure the strength of each joint and prevent the joints from loosening over time. This type of joinery, combined with teak's wood characteristics and the downward weight of the table, ensures a very stable base.

Thanks to our client for sharing photos with us of the finished dining room. It is always a pleasure to be a part of the making of a home 🙏🏻

One of the sets from our new wall art collection. An homage to the beauty of all the fallen trees collected over the past few years in The Azuero Peninsula 🍃

A soulful touch to natural slabs 🦋

What is Spalted Wood?

Spalted wood is the coloration and detailed dark lines that occur from fungal growth in wood. The unique patterns and coloration of the "spalting" process can increase the value of wood. Knowing tips and tricks on how to get wood to spalt properly allows us to discover beauties and colors that truly makes a piece unique ✨

Live edge headboards for nature-inspired interiors 🌿 Link in bio for inquiries

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
-William Martin

Caoba beauty 🌿