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Custom Restaurant Tables
In addition to our signature work for residential clients, we also specialize in custom commercial work, including...
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Happy anniversary to us!
The fall of 1997 was a busy one. Twenty years ago, Dave Stine had graduated from law...
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The Bank Job
For NBKC Bank in Kansas City, MO, Dave Stine handcrafted 145 custom pieces for the bank’s new...
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2/1
Best In Show for Sustainable Design at AD 2018!
Awards & HonorsWow! Congrats to us! David Stine Furniture was awarded “Best in Show, Sustainable Design” by ASID NY Metro at the 2018 Architectural Digest Design Shown. The award was presented at a black-tie gala at Conde Nast headquarters in New York:
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Custom Restaurant Tables
Featured, NewsIn addition to our signature work for residential clients, we also specialize in custom commercial work, including custom restaurant tables. We offer live-edge, straight-edge, single-slab, multi-board, and butcher-block styles, with custom bases in wood, steel, aluminum, copper, and brass. Our custom work is handcrafted from sustainably harvested wood from our own farm in Illinois. Everything… Read more »
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3/7
How to Care for Your Cutting Board
How ToAs a sustainable furniture craftsman (and former farm boy), I can’t throw anything away. I use every bit of the wood that I can, and that includes the off-cuts that Eli and I generate throughout the year as we craft furniture. Off-cuts are the ends and sides of boards that we trim as we build… Read more »
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2/27
And in Matte Finish News…
Announcements, NewsI’ve been working on a very flat/matte finish for my wood tables for years, and I have finally perfected it. The finish is super flat, super durable even in commercial environments, easy to repair if heavily scratched, and looks and feels great to the touch. It won’t stain, ring, chip, crack, blush, or fade. My… Read more »
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2/26
Free Passes to the Architectural Digest Design Show
Events, NewsThe annual Architectural Digest Design Show is right around the corner, and we have free passes! The show is March 22-25 at Piers 92 & 94 in New York. Please follow these instructions for passes: For GENERAL PUBLIC passes: Go to ADDesignShow.com Click “BUY TICKETS NOW.” Click “GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS.” Choose the number of passes… Read more »
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11/7
Happy anniversary to us!
Announcements, FeaturedThe fall of 1997 was a busy one. Twenty years ago, Dave Stine had graduated from law school; taken (and passed) the Maryland bar; proposed to and married his wife (me); bought, moved into, and began renovating an old brownstone in DC’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood; and, in his spare time, founded a little company called… Read more »
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8/4
The Saint Louis Art Fair
NewsWe are excited to be returning to the Saint Louis Art Fair this year. We’ve got our booth assignment — number 409, right on Forsythe! — and are working on new pieces to show. The fair’s media partner, HEC-TV, just did a great video on us that we are pleased to share. Just click here: Meet… Read more »
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7/19
The Bank Job
FeaturedFor NBKC Bank in Kansas City, MO, Dave Stine handcrafted 145 custom pieces for the bank’s new five-story headquarters in Overland Park, designed by RMTA. Each piece was custom made to the design team’s specifications, and included conference tables, communal tables, desks, coffee tables, side tables, end tables, and other accent pieces. Below is a sampling of… Read more »
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6/17
Walnut Slab Desk for Dwell Show
New ItemsI’m halfway to Los Angeles for this weekend’s Dwell on Design Show at the LA convention center. This is a great show and I made some cool new pieces to premier there, including a 10-foot long live-edge Sycamore slab dining table with an aluminum trestle base and this, the Dwell Desk: It’s seven-feet-long and features… Read more »
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6/22
Images from the Dwell Show in LA
EventsThe Dwell on Design Show at the LA Convention Center, put on by Dwell Magazine, is fantastic. I’m very excited to be here. The crowds are great and the response to my work has been terrific. Michael Graves speaks tonight! Here are some images from the show so far:
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