The cutting edge of furniture design these days, we believe, is a fusion of Craftsman from the turn of the 20th century with a restrained note of Asian forms. The architects and furniture designers Greene & Greene gave an excellent expression of this fusion in their many Pasadena "Elegant Bungalows." Emerging in the la … Read more The cutting edge of furniture design these days, we believe, is a fusion of Craftsman from the turn of the 20th century with a restrained note of Asian forms. The architects and furniture designers Greene & Greene gave an excellent expression of this fusion in their many Pasadena "Elegant Bungalows." Emerging in the late nineteenth century, the Craftsman style, also known as the Mission style in its California variations, sought to express modernity through a rejection of Victorian opulence and fussiness. In its California variation, Craftsman-Mission defined and expressed the aesthetic taste of the first generation of Californians - typically cosmopolitan and educated people from elsewhere. They brought to self-consciousness and self-expression a sense of California as a new beginning, oriented toward the future. Today that future beckons as well. While this style has its origins in California, it is not restricted to the Golden State. It is, rather - as it was in the late nineteenth century - a variation of the Progressive tradition that sought to make American life simpler, more efficient, more accessible, and more aesthetic.

Our furniture designs are inspired by this heritage. We stand on the shoulders of such design luminaries as the Greene Brothers, Gustav Stickley, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Josef Hoffman C. F. A. Voysey, and Antoni Gaudi.

We strive to make our products embody these ideals. We balance functionality with decoration, and our admiration of these masters is tempered by our desire to make our furniture more widely available. In some cases this means less ornamentation than the originals; in other cases it means adding design features made possible by technologies not available 100 years ago. In all cases we try to build our furniture to last many generations, upholding the best of the Arts & Crafts tradition.