All of our custom furniture is made in our Minneapolis workshop to your specifications within the very general and somewhat ameobic confines of our designs and capabilities.  We hand select each slab of wood for each project.  All of our wood is either re-claimed or from FSC certified forests (a very strict renewable forestry certification).  To read more about the types of woods we use, click here.  With each peice of furniture we make, we have two trees planted through the non-profit worldwide company American Forests.  

So when you look through our custom furniture almost all of those pieces were made for particular clients and are long gone.  Some pieces are very one of a kind - from one of a kind slabs of wood.  But we also offer four different collections that come in very repeatable shapes and colors of wood - so if you see a piece in one of these lines, the one you order will be very similar to the one you are looking at on line.  It's all a relatively simple process and we work with you though every stage to make is as easy and enjoyable as possible.

All of our other pieces - whether they are antique or new pieces adhere to a simple philosophy:  they have to be either interesting, good looking or have good function, and if they have all three, then we have the trifecta.  But right below those criteria, is a larger goal:  everything that we buy has to be collected in an environmentally and socially responsible way. These two things are often pitted against each other, or one gets left out from the other in duscussions.  To us, one can't exist without the other.  That's part of a much larger conversation for which we don't have nearly enough web space - but the long and the short of it is if you help support a culture, village or tribe, then they aren't put into a situation where they have to sell their land, their forests, their wildlife in order to survive. Lastly, every piece should be able to reflect the culture it came from or the hand that made it.  If it looks like it came stamped out of a machine, we aren't buying correctly.  But if it can point to the larger picture of a culture or the  story of the person that made it, then we are on the right track.