Extremis is a Belgium company with the damnedest business philosophy I have ever seen. They build products to bring people together. It’s not just outdoor furniture with these people, and most certainly, it is not just a job. It’s an adventure and a vocation, and a passion and a calling and a fever.

Share   I have a fairly well equipped shop with machines that can do almost anything with wood; but one machine I don’t have is what’s called a CNC. CNC stands for Computer Numerically Controlled. All of the operations of the CNC machine are controlled by a computer with some very sophisticated software. In this [...]

Share   Inspiration for my shoe bench designs comes from a lot of different places. The pattern for the sides of our new Kami bench is a stylization of a Japanese Torii gate. The torii gates are typically found at the entrance of Shinto shrines.  Kami is the Japanese word for spirits, but it can [...]

L’Antic Colonial is a company that exists at a number of different levels, but the one essential ingredient is variety: endless, unstinting, inexhaustible, relentless variety. They never give you only one or two ideas to run with; always it is idea after idea until you are almost breathless with it.