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Materials with a Story

No matter how great a product is, real meaning comes from its story. We start with materials that already have amazing stories and turn them into items you can use everyday for decades.

Most Popular Stories

Spark conversation with these head-turning materials that have killer backgrounds.

USS North Carolina

The USS North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, participated in every major engagement in the Pacific theater during World War II, and ultimately became one of the most decorated ships in the Pacific fleet.

Sustainable Kangaroo Leather

Perhaps the world's most sustainable leather, definitely the thinnest and strongest.

History on the Rails

Boxcar Greenheart is salvaged from the floors of decommissioned railroad boxcars that carried the lifeblood of our developing country over it's railway-arteries.

Handwoven Incan Fabric

Fabric handwoven using Incan weaving traditions and natural dyes. Designs used in the traditional Andean scarf, The Macana.

Selma Voting Rights

Wood reclaimed from the Alabama State Capitol where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech at the end of the Selma-Montgomery marches that catalyzed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Ancient Woods

Decades, even centuries, are not enough to contain these stories.

Ancient Kauri

The oldest workable wood in the world. 50,000 years ago, in what is now Northern New Zealand, a major natural event felled huge forests of kauri trees that had been growing for some 2,000 years. Those trees were miraculously preserved underground.

Bog Oak

5,000 years under a peat bog in the Ukraine have turned these huge ancient oak trees black all the way through. At the end of the last ice age, rising water levels caused huge oak forests throughout Europe to die standing and fall into the muck, where they were preserved for the last 3,500 - 5,000.

Bethlehem Olivewood

Throughout Israel there are olive groves that have grown for over 2,000 years. These trees have witnessed an unfathomable amount of history. Those who maintain them gather branch trimmings and dead-fall and make them available to tourists and woodworkers like us.

Historical Woods

Wood from buildings, boats, and more that played crucial role in history. 

Selma March

On March 25, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol building. Dr. King's choice to speak from these steps, in and of itself, was an act of strength and defiance. In 1985 the State Capitol was renovated, and a board was removed from the threshold.

USS North Carolina

The USS North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, participated in every major engagement in the Pacific theater during World War II, and ultimately became one of the most decorated ships in the Pacific fleet.

1872 Chicago Fire

In 1872, in an effort to help Chicago rebuild after the fire gutted the city in October 1871, Charles Holden commissioned the CCP Holden Building. Today the CCP Holden building (1027 W. Madison) is a fixture in the west loop, and a registered landmark.

History on the rails

Boxcar Greenheart is salvaged from the floors of decommissioned railroad boxcars that carried the lifeblood of our developing country over it's railway-arteries.

Cuban Revolution

In 1959 as Castro was taking power in Cuba, people who were connected to the previous Batista government fled the island by any means. Many people stole or stowed away on cargo ships. A few boards of Cuban mahogany aboard these ships made it into our hands over 50 years later.

Leather and Textiles

The leathers and fabrics that create our journals, bags, and wallets.

Ecuadorian Latigo Leather

Sourced for ethical treatment of animals and processed without compromise.

Handwoven Incan Fabric

Fabric handwoven using Incan weaving traditions and natural dyes. Designs used in the traditional Andean scarf, The Macana.

Sustainable Kanagroo Leather

Perhaps the world's most sustainable leather, definitely the thinnest and strongest.

Reclaimed Woods

Woods reclaimed from interesting places all over the world.

Salvaged Teak

This teak is is saved from 100-300-year-old structures that would have otherwise been demolished. IndoTeak, our suppliers, also support excellent working conditions for their team in Indonesia.

Picklewood

Prior to the onset and broad adoption of refrigeration technology, pickling was a primary method of food preservation and a lifeline for many homes. Large amounts of lumber were required to construct pickling vats. The compounds used in the pickling process add beautiful character to the wood.

Sinker Cypress

In pre-industrial America loggers practiced log driving, floating logs down-river. Some logs would sink and become trapped in silt. Today these logs are recovered from the bottom of river beds and turned into reclaimed lumber.

Midwest Farmland Red Oak

The red oak is one of the largest and most important timber trees in North America. We salvage our red oak from farmland throughout Northern Illinois.

Reclaimed Walnut Barnwood

Reclaimed from turn-of-the-century barns, our walnut is old growth timber, that is a remnant of the great forests that once covered almost all of North America.
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