Notes from the studio

Welcome to the journal.

We started this studio because we wanted furniture that read like a record of being made by hand, not pressed out of a mold. The pieces you see here begin as drawings in our San Diego studio, get poured one top at a time, and finish with a base built across the border in Tijuana.

How a piece comes together

A top starts as pigmented concrete, mixed by hand to the color we want and poured slowly into a mold that’s been brushed and prepped to give the surface its softness. We wait. We unmold. We sand the edges so the bullnose feels right under your hand, then seal it. No two ever come out exactly alike, and that’s not a flaw, it’s the record.

The base is sent down to Tijuana, where it’s welded, forged, or finished by hands that have done this for a long time. Then everything comes back together for the room it was built for.

What we mean by “made to order”

We don’t carry inventory. When a piece is ordered, we mix that color, pour that top, and build that base. The lead time is usually eight to fourteen weeks, depending on what you’re after. The trade-off is that the piece is genuinely yours, your color, your proportion, your patina.

If you’d like to start one, tell us about the room.