TONEWOOD SPEAKER

Year: 2025
Designer: Staffan Holm, Matti Carlson
Producer: Staffan Holm studio, Matti Carlson
Materials: Flame maple, European white oak
Size: Wooden front box H700 W460 D100 mm; Total height 1900 mm

Please contact us for inquiries:

studio(at)staffanholm.com

Link to Presskit

Tonewood is a flat speaker.

The sound is transferred into the wooden front from an exciter element making the wood its acoustic surface. We are inspired by the amazing artisanry of luthiers and the acoustic properties of wood. This is our first experimental step towards developing a new way to address sound, both in design and function.

We choose to craft the speaker from flame maple, the same type of maple used in cello making. This wood was harvested in 2016 from the Austrian alps and carefully dried to 5% humidity to ensure optimal acoustic properties.

Tonewood is a collaboration between Staffan Holm and Matti Carlson—an experiment in merging different areas of expertise into a single design. With Matti’s extensive experience in sound recording and post-production for the feature film industry and Staffan’s deep knowledge of wood and fine carpentry, we aim to explore how sound can be used in a number of new applications.