The voyage from forest to your home
One of the characteristics of our furniture is that it is made by
people, not by machines, and assembly lines are rarely in use.
Each stage of production is carried out by several people, so that
the 200 to 250 pieces of wood which go into making a typical
large chest of drawers may well have been handled by 20 or 25
people during production, all of them trained specialists.
The
people who apply the finish are specialists in their field, as are
the people who do the grain matching and so on. Making
furniture of this sort is not an assembly line process where
people with no skills can come in and sand the same widget
repetitively all day.
Instead we are talking about individuals
with their own goals and aspirations, and with particular
cabinet-making skills for which they are well respected.
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