Menlo Park, California · Established 1929

The furniture you cannot replace, repaired by hand.

Four craftsmen have worked this bench since 1929, each one trained by the man before him. The barn around it was built in 1885. We repair, restore, cane and refinish the pieces families mean to keep.

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Founded
1929
The Barn
Built 1885
Craftsmen
Four, in Line
A craftsman at work on a sideboard in the middle of the barn workshop, benches and racked chairs running back behind him.
Inside the shop, mid-restoration Fig. 1

The Shop

Six pages, and no filler between them.

What we do, how we do it, the building it happens in, and the four men who have stood at the bench.

  1. 01 The Craft Why almost all of it is done by hand, and what we refuse to do.
  2. 02 Services The five lines painted on the barn door, explained properly.
  3. 03 The Barn An 1885 building on a Spanish land grant, still full of sawdust.
  4. 04 History Nelson, then Kieninger, then Kieninger, then Kieninger.
  5. 05 Gallery Work from the bench, and photographs of the shop itself.
  6. 06 Inquire Bring the piece in, or send a photograph first.

“The hands truly have it.”

Tom Kieninger, on how the work gets done