Made in Klaipėda.
Made for Unhurried Evenings.
We build outdoor saunas on the Lithuanian coast. This is what we make, how we make it, and why it matters to us how each one turns out.
A Ritual Long Before It Was a Business
In Lithuania the sauna — we call it pirtis — is older than any company. It is the small wooden house at the end of the garden where the week comes to rest. Someone lights the stove on Saturday afternoon. The family arrives one by one. Nobody looks at the clock.
Children learn there to sit still. Old friends say what they never manage to say at a table. And everyone walks out into the cold air a little lighter than they walked in. That hour is what we build for.
"A sauna is the one room where nobody is in a hurry. I want ours to deserve that."
— Giedrius Patlaba, CEO
Two Saunas, One Standard
We make two kinds of sauna. The barrel is the classic: a round timber body, two to six metres long, the shape northern gardens have known for generations. Most of the more than 3,000 saunas we have built are barrels.
The cube answers a different wish — to sit in the heat and look out. A full-height glass front, 128 mm walls, an interior of thermo-treated aspen and a charred, oiled exterior: a quiet dark shape that lets the landscape do the talking.
They look nothing alike, and they leave our workshop the same way: built here, inspected point by point, and ready for the place they are going to.
From Timber to a Garden Far Away
Timber
The wood comes from mills within about 200 km of our workshop.
Workshop
Frame, walls, benches and glass come together under one roof in Klaipėda — 2,000 m² of it.
Inspection
Before a sauna is released, it is checked point by point. What leaves is a finished sauna, not a project.
Hand-over
We supply EXW from our factory in Lithuania; freight is arranged as agreed in the quotation.
Partner
In each country a dealer who knows the market delivers, installs and looks after the owner — in their own language.
Evening
Somewhere far from Klaipėda a door closes, the stones hiss, and nobody looks at the clock.
Built on Principle
No slogans. Just the rules we keep in the workshop and with our partners.
Finished Before It Leaves
A sauna is inspected point by point before release. Our partners unpack a product, not a problem.
Wood From Close By
Our timber travels no more than about 200 km to reach us. Thermo-treated aspen inside the cube, black alder for the benches of the barrel — each wood where it does its best work.
Design That Steps Back
Glass, clean lines and warm timber. A good sauna does not compete with the view; it frames it.
Partners, Not Transactions
We sell through dealers. For the cube line we appoint one exclusive partner per country and protect the territory; barrel saunas are available on wholesale terms. When a partner grows, so do we.
Plain Answers
Ask us how a wall is built, what a heater needs or what we cannot do. You will get a straight answer — also when the answer is no.
The Small Things
The joint you do not notice. The grain that runs unbroken along a wall. The smell of warm wood when the door opens. Details are what an owner feels, even when they cannot name them.
We did not set out to build the most saunas.
We set out to build the ones we would want in our own garden.
Giedrius Patlaba
CEO, Wood Architects