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Stories from the workshop — materials, craft, and the thinking behind each piece.
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RestorationNot every old chair is worth saving. Here's what we look at first when a piece arrives for an assessment.
There are four grades of leather sold to upholstery shops. Three of them shouldn't be in your living room. Here's how to read a hide before it ends up on a chair you'll regret in eighteen months.
The seat construction every upholsterer says they offer and few actually do. We break down the steps that make the price.
The three woods we use ninety percent of the time, and what each one does that the others don't.
Eight people, five rooms, one rule — every piece touches every station. Here's how it flows.
Six rounds of drawings, two prototypes, one chair the library couldn't stop ordering. The process behind a quiet piece.