Every piece begins with a tree

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Bringing a piece of handcrafted furniture into your home is only one chapter in the story of a tree.

Trees are some of the most majestic creatures on earth, and it is our privilege to bring their story into your home. Trees are historians. Their lives last decades into centuries. Viewing the grain patterns within a tree is like its own history from sapling though its entire life.

We tell their story by hand selecting every board through the process - prioritizing the use of heartwood and sapwood, vertical grain of productive years, figured grain of divergent paths, other slices to show what the tree has had to overcome, and how those adversities left a beauty to behold. Every tree has a different story to tell, so every tree is unique. Our lives and the things we have overcome make us who we are, and we share that with trees.

Bringing heirloom quality furniture into your home is a way to enjoy these stories, as your family adds more chapters of their own.

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