Two commissions, two engineering problems
A 14-seater conference table for a law firm was milled from a single sustainable walnut slab. The difficulty was not the timber — it was routing a full bundle of electrical and AV cabling through a table with a 2-inch profile. The answer was a hollow chamfered steel base engineered to carry the services out of sight.
A lounge chair commission in full-grain leather and molded teak had the opposite problem: achieving genuine ergonomic support without breaking a deliberately stark minimalist silhouette. It was resolved through multi-stage steam bending with high-density micro-foam embedded below the surface.
Where bespoke is worth it
Custom furniture earns its cost in three situations: when the space is genuinely non-standard, when the piece has to integrate services or technology, and when it carries the identity of a room — a boardroom table or a reception desk that people photograph.
Outside those cases a specified catalogue piece is usually the better decision, and we will say so.