A reverence for the material is required. Each piece of wood has its optimum orientation and treatment and its highest use (although that may be in the stove). Recognition of this is technical, experiential, and devotional.

We have designed and built machines and tooling, written protocols, and established organized routines, but precision and the structural, visual, and tactile integrity of the furniture are in our hands--not in machines, tools, or programs. Judgment and ability are challenged, risk abounds, and inspiration animates.

We sculpt joints and surfaces to please the eye with the play of light and shadow and to please the hand by a muscular and sensuous contour.  There are few flat places on our chairs.

To "sculpt" in this shop is to cut, carve, file, grind, plane, or sand to a form that is individual to that piece and moment, but consistent with an ideal.  True to the ideal, but not to the thousandths. 

We are artist-craftsmen and women, not machine tool operators.  Inspired hearts and informed  heads guide calloused hands to produce extraordinary works of beauty and utility.