Custom Furniture in San Francisco

We do not fabricate in San Francisco, and we would rather say so than let a website imply otherwise. Every piece is built and finished by hand at our own benches in Los Angeles and Long Island City, then delivered and placed across the Bay Area. What is local is the conversation: we meet by appointment, walk the site, and take the drawings from there.

In practice that costs a designer very little, because the decisions that need a room are made in the room, and the decisions that need a bench are made at the bench.

The work splits two ways. Upholstered pieces — seating, benches, headboards, and wall and ceiling upholstery — go onto hardwood frames, tied or sprung to the drawing and filled for how the piece is meant to sit. Wood pieces — occasional tables, cabinetry, bed frames — are made or specified to the drawing and finished by hand.

A designer sends dimensions, a frame or a reference, and the goods; we build to it. There is nothing to order from a catalog, though the House Collection above is a reasonable place to start if you want a silhouette to modify.

Everything that would normally be settled by walking over to the bench is settled on paper first. Drawings are confirmed before anything is cut, yardage is calculated from those drawings and confirmed back to you, and the goods ship to the fabricating workroom rather than to a warehouse. Nothing starts until the material is in hand and reserved against the order.

Before a piece crates we photograph it — frame, deck and finish — so a designer who cannot fly down still approves the real object rather than a rendering. If something is wrong, it is wrong while it is still on our floor, which is the only place it is cheap to fix.

We confirm access before fabrication — door widths, stair turns, elevator dimensions — and build knock-down or in two pieces where a hillside lot, a narrow Victorian stair or a tight Peninsula landing requires it.

Where a designer already works with a Bay Area receiver, we ship to the receiver and coordinate the install date with them. Where there is no receiver, we deliver and place the work ourselves. Either way the piece is inspected before it leaves the workroom, not after it arrives.