recent commercial projects

Hutchins Garage / Durham, NC / @HutchinsGarage

M Tempura / Durham, NC / @M_Restaurants

Michael Fullen Design Group / Los Angeles, CA / @mfullendesign

Friedman & Shields / Scotsdale, Arizona / website

Silverspot Cinemas Met Square / Miami, FL / website

WRAL Raleigh Office / Raleigh, NC / @wral

Hi-Wire Brewing / Durham, NC / @HiWireBrewing

in-process

Durham Food Hall / Durham, NC / @DurhamFoodHall

Silverspot Cinemas / Brookfield, WI / website

our team

Scott Meguid / co-founder / @tsmeguid

Abraham Uribe / co-founder

Amanda Meguid / director of communications / @amandameguid

Andrew Lichty / project manager / @ajlichty

Martin Mewes / cnc operator

Andres Ortega / woodworker

Chadd Durant / woodworker

Steve Dabal / woodworker

Barton Moyers / woodworker / @bvmoyers

Miguel Vazquez / shop assistant

Tripp Jarvis / metalworker / @trippjarvis

journaling

For today’s Thankful Thursday, we want to recognize all of the opportunities we have been given to create. The image above showcases just a portion of the places we have been fortunate enough to install our work in downtown Durham. In recognizing all that we have been able to do thus far, we can’t help but get excited about what the future holds. Future opportunities to meet and build relationships with fellow business leaders and support the city that provides us all with so much. The faces and places you see in downtown Durham are both a unique and special family that support each other and truly love where we live and work. We are grateful to be part of such a creative community. We are all in this together!
The Carson Table. An elegantly designed, turned wood dining table with a velvety 66-inch top and 34-inch base that allows for sufficient space underneath to push a chair in without marring the base. The .25-inch beveled edge running along the 1.75-inch table top achieves a minimal aesthetic while maintaining structural integrity throughout. Powerful to look at and an experience to feel in person. Featured here in Oregon Black Walnut, the Carson Table is also available in Ebonized Oak and Oxidized Maple.
As we near the one week anniversary of the horrific explosion last week, we want to take the time to remind you of a special event going on tonight to honor those who were injured in the blast, and dear Mr. Kong Lee, who tragically lost his life that day. As a community, we will come together in an epic display of healing, and we hope you will be there to share in support. Thank you to all those who have joined together in organizing this gathering.
Please share this event with as many people as you can. There is nothing more beautiful and important at this time than our community coming together.
Our third shop was off East Geer Street by @the_reuse_warehouse in downtown Durham. The shop was darker with considerably less natural light than our second shop off Foster Street, but it was much more spacious. A leap of faith, Geer Street was the first opportunity we had to expand and was our first major move. Growing and expanding meant adding more people to the team, more equipment in the shop, and more deadlines to the calendar, which we found to be very exciting. We were finally starting to see the fruits of our labor and see things begin to come together in a big way. This milestone led to a resurgence of energy and hope, dreaming of what was to come. We tried new things, like our first foray into concrete, and setting up our spray booth, which was the first step we took into bringing finishing in-house. While the offices weren’t anything to write home about, what we were able to create there was. We also refined our photography process at Geer Street and is where many of our hallmark images were taken that you see on our website today.
This week’s Feature Friday is a beautiful Maple species of wood. Wormy Maple, also known as Ambrosia Maple, is a type of soft Maple that shows mineral streaks and color variations that are caused by the Ambrosia beetle. The Ambrosia beetle carries a fungus on its legs which cause the discoloration, and it deposits larvae that bore small “worm holes” in the living wood. The lovely wormy pattern that appears as a result of this process does not affect the final performance of the wood and is highly desired because no two boards are alike. We find Wormy Maple to be endlessly unique and just another example of mother nature’s gorgeous displays of eccentricity.

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photography by amanda meguid