We Design What We Build
Rocking Chairs, Dining and Custom Furniture
Informed by purpose and performance. Inspired by line, light, shadow, and touch.
Gary at the bench with tools and patterns, designing an original dining chair.
Form, Fit, and Function
Bill KirchenBorn at the junction of form and function.
We can develop a pleasing form of a cabinet or table from drawing, with pencil or computer. But a comfortable chair must express a human form in negative that cannot be accurately imagined on paper or screen. We find that form by testing with an adjustable contraption--many people sit and we adjust to find points and planes and means. We then design to fit.
Gary at the drawing board
Austin and visitor at the fitting booth
Austin's latest dining chair design, the Webb Chair
Refined to Essence
Willa CatherThe higher processes of art are all of simplification.
Every design refined.
Our rocking chair expresses the human form in negative, without affectation.
Comfort, Utility, Longevity
Frank Lloyd WrightComfort and utility may go hand and hand with beauty.
We do not compromise comfort, utility, or longevity
for statement, style, fashion, or ease of making.
Dining Chairs must be light, strong, durable, supporting good posture, and comfortable long after dinner for the laughing and talking.
Count, you are spot-on. GW
Count BasieSimple is hard.
Because our designs are clean, there is no place to hide less than impeccable workmanship.
Craftsmanship is integral to design.
Procedure, Practice, Precision
Dieter RamOnly well-executed objects can be beautiful.
We have developed our own set of techniques and elements.
Some are innovations to traditions,
some are adaptations,
some are adoptions,
and some are born anew.
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