Amalesh Hartmuth Krien, owner
I was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1964 and started remodeling work to put myself through university. I moved to Berkeley, CA in 1988 to study guitar making with Ervin Somogyi. Afterwards I worked for a private collector in San Francisco restoring antiques and later restoring antique pianos at Buchman Hall in New York City. My experience includes four years of remodeling work and construction supervision in three states. In 1998 I moved to Santa Fe, where I started my own woodworking shop, Holz llc.
Holz llc started to operate as a woodworking business in 1999, making custom furniture pieces for individual clients and architectural woodwork for Ten Thousand Waves spa. From 2002 to to 2007 the company specialized in architectural woodwork installation services for the trades, installing some of the most challenging projects in town for companies like Samora Woodworks, Wolf Corp and Design Galleria in Atlanta. Now the main focus is built-in cabinetry. Holz llc also does full kitchen and bathroom remodels working with our favorite licensed contractors.
The Shop
Holz llc is located on Old Santa Fe Trail. Equipped with top-of-the-line machinery, our shop can produce anything from custom furniture pieces to whole-house cabinetry efficiently and to the highest standards. There is also another fully equipped mobile shop for manufacturing and installing woodwork on site.
In our dedicated spray shop we apply a variety of fine finishes, from our standard catalyzed water-based clear coat to complex glazed antique color finishes.