About
One maker. No shortcuts. Materials that most shops won't bother with. Work that takes as long as it takes.
It started with picture frames and built-ins in a Brooklyn one-bedroom. Nothing that impressive — just a growing obsession with getting things right and a slow accumulation of tools. By 2020 it had turned into furniture. The work kept improving. At some point it crossed a line from hobby to something more serious.
No furniture school. No apprenticeship. Just years of figuring it out, making mistakes, and not being satisfied until the piece was actually good. That background shows up in how the shop runs: careful about material selection, detailed in the design process, honest about what's possible and what isn't.
The goal hasn't changed. Make things people use. Things that are still around in thirty years — and look better for the wear.
Not just walnut — rift-sawn walnut where stability matters. Quartersawn where the grain needs to move a certain way. The species and the cut are both decisions.
Every piece is built from scratch. That's slower and more expensive than templating designs. It also means the piece actually fits the person who ordered it.
There's no fast version of this work. If a joint isn't right, it gets redone. The finish gets as many coats as it needs.
The process
Every custom project gets modeled in CAD. Dimensions, proportions, joinery details — reviewed together until it looks right. That's when we talk materials and finish. Wood doesn't get ordered until all of it is settled.
