From sheet metal to finished furniture: how we make metal furniture
A piece of metal furniture begins as a panel, flat and unintentional. The laser cuts out the development of the later piece, i.e. the body, unfolded into the plane. Then the bending bench presses the sheet metal along a line around a tool; The surface becomes an angle, the angle becomes a leg, and several angles become a body. Each radius is a decision that the material only allows in one direction.
Where two surfaces meet, they are welded and the seam is ground. Stainless steel is then brushed and brass patinated, and a final sealing holds this finish in place.
These weeks are not a waiting time in front of a warehouse, but the time in which the metal furniture is created in the first place. There is no hall with packaged goods. It is built according to the order, for the room from which it comes. Handcrafted furniture requires patience and in return gives something in return that stock items do not: influence the result before it is finalized.
Perhaps that is the essence of what distinguishes a workshop from a catalog. A catalog shows what is available; a production shows what can become of it if someone asks. The answer is not always a yes; sometimes it is an indication that a measure is too much for the material. This is also part of a piece of furniture that is made by hand: it is said beforehand, not afterwards.
The collections at a glance
The range runs from large tables to objects for the wall and remains focused because each category needs only a few forms. The dining tables come in lengths from 200 to 300 cm. ZEN DINING puts 122 kg on the floor and is not easily moved again; SAMURAI seats up to eight people. A table like this does not move around. It becomes a place.
The Coffee tables have four shapes: a round brass disc measuring ⌀60 to ⌀100 cm, a flat plate only 23 cm high, a matt surface on curved legs and a closed cylinder. What they have in common is the restraint with which they stand in the room; each form redeems it differently. Metal furniture of this size transforms a room without being able to say how.
With the shelves the range extends from slim wall shelves in three lengths to a modular system to freestanding shelving with open levels. Under Seating there is a bench and a lounge chair, while the consoles include a console table, a chest of drawers with two drawers and a sculptural form made of brass. The Decoration brings together a mirror, a brass chess set and hand-made wall objects, the largest of which is 100 cm high and weighs around 20 kg.
A few types of furniture, two finishes, no colour range. What seems like a gap is why everything can be combined. Stainless steel shelving and a brass table speak the same dialect. Put two pieces from this range in a room and their shared workshop is apparent without a label.
Modern, made-to-measure furniture instead of catalog goods
Every piece in the program can be changed: in length, in height, in surface, in alloy. If you need a measure that doesn't exist, describe the space; The manufacturer responds with a drawing and a fixed price, and construction only begins when both have been accepted. Usually it's about ten centimeters more table length, a height that fits an existing sofa, or a niche that isn't provided for in a catalog.
For exclusive furniture, this is exactly the difference between a workshop and a catalog. The catalog offers variants that someone thought were likely. The manufacturer offers the variant that a specific room requires and does not have to change anything because each piece starts individually anyway. A bespoke dimension is not an exception to the process, but the process itself.
It is also decided what will not be built. No pull-outs, no wheels, no storage space behind flaps, no white or black color options. Anything that moves out, rolls out or opens requires mechanics, and mechanics require joints. With metal furniture, however, it is the uninterrupted surface that is what you see. She carries the light; what interrupts her takes something away from her.
The renunciation has a second effect that only becomes apparent over the years. Because neither the construction nor the surface changes in the meantime, a metal piece of furniture that is ordered five years after the first one does not look like a latecomer. Programs that renew themselves every season can't promise that. One that barely moves doesn't have to.
Delivery, advice and the way to order
Delivery is made to the kerb by a freight carrier. Shipping is free for all categories except dining tables; items in stock can be returned within 14 days. Heavy pieces are best carried by two people; that is not a rule, just experience.
Whether brass or stainless steel belongs in a room is difficult to decide from photographs. Patinated surfaces change with the light; an image only records one state. A video call can therefore be arranged via the product pages; the camera then moves over both materials, and the difference is evident in the movement. If you already have measurements, send them along.
Most of the time the material question is answered after a few minutes and the conversation turns to something else: dimensions. A hallway that is two centimeters narrower than expected, a sofa that is deeper than usual, a wall that is shorter than any length in the program. This becomes clearer more quickly on the screen because both sides are looking at the same drawing.
At the end of this path there is no order from a warehouse, but an order to a manufacturer. The difference is small as long as you just read it. It becomes big when a metal piece of furniture is placed in a room for which it was intended, rather than in one in which it happens to fit.
