Who we are (and aren’t)

We create fine custom hand-made furniture. When we tell people this, often they say, "Oh, you make reproductions," meaning that we make copies of old furniture. We do not make "reproductions" except for the times we are asked to duplicate a specific piece. For instance, a recent customer had a nice Chester County Pennsylvania chair with drake feet. We were asked to make a set of dining chairs using this chair as a pattern.

There are a number of shops that make satisfactory reproductions, and a few that make what can only be described as fakes, since they reproduce the wear and tear of many generations of use.

But few shops can successfully make custom furniture, which requires a sense of style and the ability to synthesize a new form from a variety of sources.