In County Cork, Ireland, stands a furniture studio billing themselves as "one of the leading studio workshops in Europe." Looking at Joseph Walsh Studio's work, which uncannily blends the manmade and the organic, leaves no doubt that the claim is accurate.

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Company founder Walsh is a self-taught designer and builder, and while he started out as a one-man shop in 1999, today he employs a team of international craftsmen hailing from Ireland, France and Japan. This "team of Master Makers, Design Technicians and their assistants [help Walsh with] engineering, resolving and crafting the work." And they must be patient folk: Some of the shapes, as you'll see below, almost look as if they were designed to torture the guy who's got to get in there to sand.

According to the studio's website, their rather unusual aesthetic stems from Walsh's "appreciation of nature and also his desire to engage the user with visual and tactile forms." What they're going for is

The understanding and sympathetic use of the material; the intimate relationship between the process of finding forms and creating structures; the continuity and resolve from the concept to the making process, define Joseph's studio and work today. He seeks inspiration in nature, in the patterns of growth and evolution - this has influenced his approach to design and process allowing the pieces to evolve and reveal themselves.

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Check out more of Walsh's stunning work here.