We build things that last.
We value our employees and their talents, their labor, and their well-being. While compensation in the shop correlates with skill and productivity, we pay all our employees well. We provide the benefits that are expected by those who shower before work, but have seemed to disappear to those who shower after. We build our furniture in rural North Carolina. Our founder was born in a small town in the same state, learning woodworking from his father in their garage workshop.
We value wood. Wood keeps you warm, covers your head, stirs your pasta, and helped Sammy Sosa hit home runs (yes, we’re a Cubs family here).
We value our forests, so we don’t waste wood. We invest extra labor to preserve it and use it wisely. We work to utilize the trees that are available to us — even if the wood is imperfect and needs extra time in the shop. We’ve taken notes from pre-industrial times, where material was scarce and extremely valuable, and steps were taken to use it as efficiently as possible.
Our prices reflect our values. We seek to do justice to the wood, the woods, and the people who work with it and in them.
We hope when you buy from us you can feel we’ve built something to last, and we don’t just mean the furniture.
Thank you for your business,
Stokes Furniture