While typical American furniture manufacturers continue to outsource production and supplies to international sources, at least one domestic firm is proving that craftsmanship and local sourcing can ...

Have you ever made a chair in your frying pan? The furniture designers at Detroit-based Thing Thing Studio have. Their Pan Fried Stools, made from melted crayons, are just one of the many ways they ...

When chef Flynn McGarry needed to source 15-foot-long tables for his Copenhagen-meets-California café and grocery Gem Home in NoLita, he put down his spatula and picked up a saw. The result? Four ...

If you love the furniture you have, there are plenty of things you can do to keep it looking nice and sturdy for the long haul. Some of it you can do now, after everything is assembled, but some of ...

There’s nothing like building something and putting it to work in your life and in the lives of people around you. I’ve built very little that qualifies as fine furniture. Most of what I’ve built is ...

The U.S. furniture industry relies on global manufacturing, and it seems there is a never-ending search for cheap labor. Today, it is estimated that less than 20% of case goods (or wood furniture) and ...

This story is part of a BostonomiX series called “The Future Of Work” that examines the jobs of the future and the skills needed for those jobs. Furniture runs in Josh Weissman's blood. In 1976, his ...