Handcrafted Custom Furniture

We offers a wide variety of custom, handcrafted wood furniture: Rocking chairs, desks, dining room tables, dining room chairs, kitchen furniture, living room furniture, Morris chairs, bedroom furniture, end tables, occasional tables, dressers, hutches, replications of antique furniture and on and on. Many are one-of-a-kind, all are handmade items all made to the highest of standards. If you don’t see what you are looking for please contact us and we’ll help you put together exactly what it is you want. A picture or a sketch or just an idea and lots of communication always gets what is needed and wanted. Our customer service to you and your satisfaction are our top priority.

Richard Weigand, Custom Furniture Maker

His studio/shop is where he likes to spend his time working on his next projects. He’s currently working on a commission for the owner of a Greene and Greene home in Pasadena, CA. A home, known to those that follow the Arts and Crafts movement as, the Bolton House. Richard will be replicating several pieces of furniture designed by the Greene brothers for the entry hall of the home. Those pieces of furniture were the first to bring the ebony peg to view for the followers of these two creative architects.

Richard has been involved in art all of his life. He’s studied formally but made better progress on his own. He’s taught painting and run an art gallery. He started and ran a successful ceramic business and had his own pottery studio. Along with art he has had a passion for architecture from building architecturally designed homes to restoring old Arts & Crafts houses. For much of his life he turned to troubleshooting and career consulting of artists including potters, painters, writers, composers and many of the other professions in Hollywood. Wherever life has taken him he’s maintained a keen interest in the arts. In his early 60’s he’s retired to Southwestern Virigina where he loves the mountains, and the people. Living amongst the wonderful hardwood forests he has found the art form that, at this stage of his life, gives him great pleasure and satisfaction - furniture making.

"I’ve always admired expertise and anything really well built especially older pieces with their sense of history. Not fancy things, just good craftsmanship with lots of care put into it. I particularly like the turn of the last century when the American dream meant building things that would last. Great design, great materials and great craftsmanship. I’ve retired from the hectic lifestyle of Hollywood and the bigger cities to a higher quality of life in the mountains. I took up woodworking, to provide my family with the quality of furnishing I’ve always admired and from that base have continued making my furniture for others who appreciate that quality and style. I enjoy the challenge and inspiration I get from clients who have particular ideas for their own furniture. More and more people are realizing they can have furniture built for their own size and shape and their own particular needs. It’s wonderful to sit in a chair made especially for you."

John Ruskin was an early inspiration for Richard. Ruskin believed that something should be what it appeared to be, not pretend to be something else. The honesty, quality and care of the Arts and Crafts movement were key ingredients that appealed to Richard. He’s also been influenced by the better known designers and architects of that era. The Greene and Greene brothers, Charles and Henry; Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright and William Morris. The great mathematicians like Fibonacci and others have had their influence as well. A particular philosophy that appeals to him is Wabi Sabi, a world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience or, as some know it, the Japanese art of imperfection. The admiration of things hand made and the appreciation of the beauty in nature, not things mass produced.

Favorite Quotes.....

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"It's unwise to pay too much but it's unwise to pay too little.

When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all.

When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.

The common law of business balance prohibits
paying a little and getting a lot.

It can't be done.

If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add something for the risk you run.

And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better!"