Built By Hand,
In Brooklyn.
A Furniture Maker, Not A Brand
Nongeric started in a 600-square-foot garage in Red Hook, Brooklyn — three woodworkers, a pile of FSC walnut, and a shared frustration with what mass-market mid-century reproductions had become: thin veneers over MDF, sold for thousands of dollars, built to last about a decade.
We took the icons we loved — the Saarinen tulip, the Wegner Y-chair, the Eames lounge — and rebuilt them the way they were originally built: solid hardwood, traditional joinery, hand-rubbed finishes. Then we added our own pieces in the same language: the Solstice, the Conoid, the Mariner.
Today we are seven people in a 4,000-square-foot workshop on Atlantic Avenue. We still build every piece to order. We still sign each one. And we still believe a chair should outlive the person who bought it.
Three Things We Won't Compromise
Joinery
Mortise-and-tenon, dovetails, finger joints. Glue is for assembly, not structure. Every piece is engineered to be repaired, not replaced.
Materials
FSC-certified American walnut, white oak, and Burmese teak. Real solid wood. Aniline leathers and wools from family-run European mills.
Provenance
Every piece is signed and numbered by its maker. We tell you who built your chair, where the wood was milled, and how to care for it for the next forty years.
Visit The Workshop
Our Atlantic Avenue showroom is open Tuesday through Sunday. Come sit in a Solstice, run your hand along a teak edge, and ask the maker how it was built.