We are driven to produce hardwood furniture that respects the integrity of the materials and the craft.
There's an argument to be made for the McDonald's cheeseburger. It's a low-cost source of protein and carbs, it's a predictable and consistent choice, and it tastes pretty good. Generations of bright people stand behind the engineering and corporate innovation that made it ubiquitous.
Furniture is similar. Plenty of furniture has about the same relationship to wood that fast food meats have to their animal namesakes. The veneered wrapper is nice and the overwhelming majority of the time it performs its intended function without incident.
And while we occasionally have one or the other in our home, they tend to meet the same end: whatever's left after a short time slumps and slouches regrettably until we get around to throwing it away.
We usually admire those mass-produced things in spite of what they are, not because of what they are. We admire the ingenuity of the process, or the success of the business, or the speed of fulfillment. They can have a coffee table on your doorstep tomorrow.
We build our furniture for the opposite reasons. We take time to select and arrange our boards. When each piece is done, we know the heft and shape and feel of every part. We know it before it becomes a contiguous object and while it (hopefully) becomes beautiful.
When you bring our work into your home, part of what you're buying is the accumulation of hundreds of tiny decisions all made by favoring what is objectively right and trying hard to achieve it.
