Constantine Filippou got in touch with furniture at the workshop of his father in Thessaloniki from a really young age. He grew up at a peaceful and Christianic environment and he became a champion with many distinctions at track events.
With an active spirit (for more than six years) he followed the track of church mission in Africa next to the fathers Amfilochios Tsoukos and Kosmas Grigoriatis and he built temples at the central Africa, working hard for the consolidation of Orthodoxy.
His inner desire for offering at the Church and Fathers lead him to create a workshop for the construction of wooden handmade furniture so as to decorate the temples.
Standing next to skilled and talented monks he were taught the art of insert planted woods (fyteuta) at Cerasia in Mount Athos, having as a target the best environment of his business. The insert or planted woods are beautiful geometric colorful designs which decorate the external surfaces of the ecclesiastical furniture. They are consisted of thousands colorful pieces of rear first quality african wood (mahogany, maple, ebony, tic, bantouk etc.) He created his own original furniture which shows good workmanship and patience contributing to the development of the art.
His zest and desire for what he did, didn’t obstruct him from making at the same time his own family consisting of nine children. All together they maintain the tradition of his work after his death, work which is known at the ecclesiastical and monasterial places.(Holy temples, Holy Monasteries and cells.)
Our many years experience, excellent technique and diligence at all our handmade creations (Temples- pews- icon stands), the morals and the reliability of the business Filippou, has been known and been “planted” at many Holy Temples- Holy Monasteries in Greece and abroad, too.
Because of the financial depression of our days and us we understand the financial difficulties of the Holy Temples we pioneer and we offer you reconstruction or substitution after the withdrawal of your old ecclesiastical furniture instead of money, so as to continue the church mission of our father. We also undertake to spare them, without extra cost, to the Holy Temples which don’t have the financial ability to construct new furniture in Greece and abroad, too.
We will be glad if you communicate with us for any information you need. Specifically, you can visit us at our exhibition which headquarters
at Nea Redestos in Thessaloniki/Greece.
With appreciation and respect,
Sotirios K. Filippou
