King POKKA & the PAKKA's - Wood Toy Series x Pepe Hiller

"The tribe of the PAKKA's is a mysterious one, there are rumors that already a small group of them can hunt down a huge buffalo by themselves. They usually live in small caves in the mountainous wilderness and hunt in the plains. Their King POKKA needs to lead them heavy-handed while learning them how to behave and to camouflage in these lands. This seems especially important as otherwise they would not stop to brawl and scuffle all day long. Well and as we all know, it’s almost impossible to hunt buffalos while making too much noise!”

The 6 inch PAKKA's are crafted out of finest smoked oak wood. For hunting each one holds a beech spear with a shiny brass spearhead fixed with a natural leather ribbon. The arms are articulated and each PAKKA has a small brass tooth. The eyes are made out of galvanized steel.

The huge King POKKA is 12 inch tall & weighs a hefty 5 pounds!! He features two additional rows of maple teeth, one massive brass eyetooth and his horns are decorated by multiple solid brass jewelry. These figures have a natural semi gloss bees wax finish. Each piece is signed and numbered by the artist (iron branded/embossed).

This will be on sale soon at the Pepe Hiller online store.

October Release! PIDA & OLGOS - Wood Toys x Pepe Hiller

Pepe Hiller has two new releases for October. The curly lady PIDA is a one of a kind piece that he worked on over quite a while this summer. Then he has a small series of OLGOS waiting to travel around the globe to graze at your local green spot. They come in pairs so you get two figures with one catch here.

Both designs will be available trough his store as October 20, 2015 at 2:)) CEST.  

PIDA - 4.5 inch Wood Toy by Pepe Hiller

(One of a kind piece)

"PIDA is a curly little lady. She lives in the botanical garden where she keeps an eye to the frogs. She learned from them to jump from water lily leaf to another and her guilty pleasure is to eat duckweed sprouts."

PIDA is carved out of one piece of sapele wood and was sanded to a smooth finish in countless hours. The figure has a high gloss coat and the piece comes signed & numbered by the artist (embossed). 

OLGOS - 3 inch & 2 inch Wood Toys

(Limited Edition of 12 pairs)

"OLGOS are sturdy little chaps, they travel huge distances over snowy mountains and endless tundras to find a nice little spot where they can rest and eat fresh grass. And they are surprisingly fast... well in their eyes, we barely see them moving."

The OLGOS are handcrafted out of swiss spruce. These figures have a high gloss finish and each piece is signed and numbered by the artist (embossed).

ICYMI: RAKU Wooden Toy by Pepe Hiller

Swiss artist Pepe Hiller loves to create pieces of art using wood. His latest sold out release is called RAKU. Limited to just 5 handmade pieces, RAKU is a 5" wood toy that was priced at only $120 plus shipping. RAKU is made out of a various types of wood, including alder, smoked oak wood and walnut. RAKU also features a brass hearth on it's chest, while the sword is made out a beautiful wenge wood, brass parts and a leather handle.

More about RAKU from Pepe:

"RAKU appreciate the various moods and sentiments suggested by the snow, the moon, and the trees and flowers, as they go through the transformation of seasons, appearing and disappearing, blooming and withering. 

If RAKU uses his sword, he makes it serve to give life to others. And while fought on many battlefields his true passion and mastery is brewing the finest and most delicious tea in all the seven woods. You can watch him listen quietly to the boiling water in the kettle, which sounds like a breeze passing through the pine needles. Legend has it that if you drink a bowl of tea together with RAKU you will become oblivious of all worldly woes and worries."

Be sure to follow Pepe Hiller on social media if you don't want to miss out on any future release Pepe will have.

- Mark-Anthony

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New Wood Toys by Pepe Hiller

After a long deserved hiatus, Pepe Hiller is back with some brand new wooden toys. Right now the plan is for him to have one release at the end of each month. The September release will be the above RAKU - a 5 inch Walnut/Alder Wood Samurai! To stay up to date on the releases sign up for his newsletter, visit his webpage, or follow him on Instagram, twitter and facebook.

Cris Rose x Pepe Hiller Release Arborobots

Pepe Hiller and Cris Rose have jointly designed and crafted new sets of wooden & brass sculptural toys- Arborobots! Each set includes 3 pieces; 2 robots and a telescope, the tallest of which stands 7". The Stargazer & The Gardener "Ramble & Roam" are extremely limited. Only 6 sets were made in each of 2 wood varients made of Wenge and Spruce wood.

The patterns on the wood grain are lovely in both dark and light sets, and being hand-made, will have some slight pattern variations in each that will make your set unique and individual.

UK Artist Cris Rose has some available on his eStore here.

You can find more of Pepe Hiller's wooden sculptural art on Instagram @pepehiller and his blog here.



-Tasha Zimich

BEECHBLOCKS by Pepe Hiller

A bit late, but happy to see that this series was sold out fast. This is the latest series by Pepe Hiller, called the BEECHBLOCKS.

Some details:

• 4 inch wood toys by Pepe Hiller
• First edition of 20 Pieces
• All signed & numbered
• Beech wood, brass feather & bees wax finish

The BEECHBLOCKS comes from a beautiful place where it is always late spring, with blooming flowers and cloudless skies, never too warm or too cold. Their heraldic motto is “Walk upright like the trees and keep the sun in your heart!”

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Queen of the SOLD OUT LunaBEE's...

The Queen of the instant sell outs has done it again! Lunabee teamed up with Pepe Hiller to make these cute little hand painted wooden bees. I have to say this collaboration is amazing! With Pepe Hiller's smooth wood skills and Lunabee's painting skills, combining both skills makes for a killer combination. Although these are SOLD OUT now, I am sure with enough requests both artists would definitely be up for another collaboration! For Lunabee's website please click HERE. For Pepe Hiller's website please click HERE.