Handcrafted Furniture? "Limited Edition" Sofas and Chairs?

Our furniture is made individually to order. Almost every product is unique, made in the customer's choice of several distinctive designs plus design options, various heights, seat depths and firmnesses, thousands of fabrics, many lengths and wood colors, and other custom options. But we don't like to use the word "handcrafted" to refer to our furniture, only because that word has become so over-used and so inappropriately-used as to become almost meaningless. We feel it's better to discuss the benefits that result from a product's being made individually to the customer's order, rather than carrying on in the usual marketingspeak.

We do use power tools in making our furniture (as do probably most makers of "handcrafted" products). But we make the furniture with care in a small workshop, with careful attention to accurately carrying out each customer's unique set of specifications. We also devote a very unusual amount of attention to strength of construction, to quality of wood selection, to precise, accurate joinery, to careful wood finishing, and to well-tailored upholstering. Our fabric covers are cut one at a time, not in stacks as is normal in factories, and we rarely sell the same fabric twice. This kind of individual care and custom work would never be a part of what goes into typical furniture.

What you'll find in stores are the mostly-the-same products that cater to the latest preferences of the mass market; these latest trends currently include bulky dimensions and very soft support, unsuitable for many rooms and people. These products are usually made by routinely passing standard parts down an assembly line, with each worker doing the same narrowly-defined industrial task day after day. The cost advantages of mass production are obviously important to many people, but we take pride in providing furniture that is more satisfying to many customers than the mass-market products. And we know that, compared with the typical, short-lived, stapled-together furniture (which is the nature of most furniture in stores these days), our products will usually be more economical in the long run, and better for the environment, because of their extra-durable construction and their ease of renewal.

Although we try to avoid applying over-used terms like "handcrafted" to our furniture, that term probably in actuality describes our furniture far more accurately than most other products to which it is applied these days.

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Are you attracted to "Limited Editions"? Products including furniture are sometimes described as such, in order to try to convince people to pay a premium price. These editions are often "limited" to hundreds or even thousands. (Or are they "limited" to the number that the producers figure they can sell?) By contrast:
Almost every piece of furniture that we make is an edition of one, unless the same customer orders a matching set.

We do continue offering the same underlying designs through the years, which allows our satisfied customers to add additional, compatible pieces years later. It also promotes increasingly high quality, since we continue to develop ways to improve our products as we make additional pieces with the same basic structure. But what people actually see varies almost infinitely, with the customer's choice from among many thousands of fabrics being only part of the range of possible variations.

The quantities produced of our furniture are "limited" naturally, not limited by somebody's marketing decision. Our furniture does not cater to the preferences of the general public. Our designs are very out-of-the-ordinary, in a world in which most people's tastes are shaped by the usual, typical things that they regularly see around them. Added to that is the fact that most of our furniture is outside the mass-market price range. (These prices result not from high-overhead retailing but from high quality standards and from the costs of relatively slow, expensive custom work.) Also, we don't sell through stores or through third parties of any kind; most people don't think of buying furniture except from local retailers. Combine all of the above with the fact that every product we make is individually customized in one of thousands of fabrics plus numerous other options, and you'll see why it's almost certain that nobody will see furniture such as you purchase from us anyplace except in your home.

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