Come experience a truly one-on-one tour of a working custom furniture factory. Unique Sofas of America is the sole supplier for BuildASofa.com a custom sofa and sectional retailer with showrooms in California and Texas.

Built to Last was started over 20 years ago in a small garage as a hobby building Adirondack chairs. From day one, our goal has been to build the most comfortable and longest lasting outdoor furniture possible. By achieving this goal, we have been able to grow into the company we are today, and now offer over 80 products in 16 colors. A key factor of our success is our extremely sturdy frame designs. Each product is still made from 100% recycled HDPE plastic, and remains 100% handcrafted in the USA. All components that make up our furniture are also American made; with our plastic lumber being produced in Green Bay, WI and our 316 marine-grade stainless fasteners coming from Detroit, MI.

Built to Last has shipped direct to all 50 states and internationally. We also provide local delivery services to the Outer Banks (OBX) and Hampton Roads areas

Carrington Court has been dedicated to the production of the highest quality furniture for over 15 years. We are located in Hickory, North Carolina - the furniture capital of the world. We have assembled a team of expert craftsmen. Our upholsterers have the years of experience necessary to do the meticulous tailoring required for quality furniture and perfect fit slipcovers.

In addition to Parsons chairs, Carrington Court also manufactures sofas, love seats, wing chairs, club chairs, benches & ottomans. We sell direct to the public over the Internet. And if you?re ever in Hickory, North Carolina give us a call and we?ll give you a tour of our factory.

Visit our LaFayette, Georgia factory. Visitors are always welcome at Flex-A-Bed. Watch us build the high quality beds that give thousands a great night of sleep. We would love to show you around.

You can make reservations so we know you are coming, or you can just drop in during normal production hours. Please make reservations for large groups. Email us for details at [email protected] or give us a call at 1-800-648-1256.

Here on our farm in western Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we still make furniture the traditional way...with our hands. Crafted out of solid Walnut, Oak or Cherry, you can select from our standard designs, or bring your sketchbook, and we will custom-tailor your piece just for you! We design, build and even deliver your piece right to your door!

Everything we make is solid wood, including neglected areas like drawer bottoms and cabinet backs. Our furniture, from dining room tables to complete office suites is durable, water resistant, and covered with a satin catalysed conversion finish that resists damage and staining. Our furniture is built to last...not just for several years, but for several generations!

Our master craftsmen take pride in their work...each piece is dated and autographed by the craftsman who made it. You can come and watch our people construct furniture in the woodshop, tour the wood curing facility and learn the difference proper handling and treatment of wood will make in your furniture, and visit George's unique museum.

George can build furniture for every room in your home or office -- including tables, chairs, hutches, entertainment centers, curio cabinets, corner cupboards, dry sinks, credenzas, bookcases, display cases, gun cabinets, executive desks, end tables, deacon's benches, settees, bedroom furniture -- you name it, we can build it!

Then there is our Rocking Chair...once you come out and sit in one, you just might set your current recliner out at the curb for pickup! Our Rocking Chair will not tip over, and will actually recline! And the chair is designed to match your frame, built by hand by our craftsmen, and delivered right to your door.

Harden Furniture conducts a free tour of our facility, starting at the Harden Showroom. You will be guided through our factory to see real people making real furniture of outstanding quality. The tour usually takes approximately 2 hours, depending on the number of questions and information requested.

A virtual tour held at the Kohler Design Center.

P. Graham Dunn is a family owned and operated business that opened its doors in 1976. However the series of events that lead to this business began much earlier. It?s difficult to pick a time or place to begin, but we will try to do just that. The time is the 1940?s and the place is a politically unstable China.

Peter Dunn?s parents, Marvin and Miriam Dunn, dedicated nearly their entire lives to work in China serving China Inland Missions, a mission founded by Hudson Taylor. Each began serving independently, and it was in China that they met and were married. Miriam kept a memoir of her experiences as a child of missionaries growing up in China herself. It is Peter?s goal to one day have these memories published and shared. Marvin and Miriam continued serving until their retirement in 1973.

During World War II, Marvin and Miriam were serving in a small village helping a young couple prepare for their wedding ceremony. Unfortunately due to the war, the bride was having difficulty obtaining silk for her wedding dress. Eventually some silk was rounded up for the dress from a most unusual source. The wedding dress was made from silk parachutes of American aviators who had just finished a near suicide mission over Japan. The man in charge of the operation was none other than Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.

China was a very turbulent and dangerous place in the 40?s and 50?s for foreigners. In 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Graham Hutchinson were led to join the China Inland Mission. During these years of service, Japan invaded China and the invasion was followed by intense civil war. This put the lives of missionaries at risk. The mission board ordered the evacuation of all who were serving in southwestern China. This included the Graham Hutchinson?s and also Marvin and Miriam Dunn. The route to safety was a bumpy flight on a DC-3 over the Himalayas into India. The Graham Hutchinson?s were scheduled to fly out on the same plane as the Dunn?s. However, the plane ran out of seating before everyone was loaded. The childless Hutchinson?s noticed that Miriam was obviously pregnant and had not been seated. They voluntarily gave up their seats so Miriam and Marvin could take the first flight out of China. After arriving safely in India, Miriam and Marvin were devastated to learn the following flight crashed into the Himalayas and everyone on board perished.

Miriam gave birth to Peter?s older sister Rosemary in India. After returning to China less than two years later to resume their work, Miriam gave birth to a son. She named him Peter Graham Dunn in recognition of the sacrifice the Graham Hutchinson?s made. Later when Peter chose a name for his new business, it was important to emphasize Graham. Finally, when Peter and his wife LeAnna had their son Thomas, they extended this recognition by naming him Thomas Graham Dunn.

Peter?s journey from China to the world?s largest Amish and Mennonite community took him through Three Hills, Alberta. It was there while Peter was a young man that he spotted the young lady who would later become his wife, LeAnna Gerber, a Mennonite from the United States. Peter courted LeAnna for nearly 7 years, never seeming to gain her affection. While nearly ready to give up, Peter traveled to Ohio to visit LeAnna and her family over the Christmas holidays of 1971. Sitting atop the silo on the family farm, LeAnna turned to Peter and asked if he was going to ask to marry her, or what! And marry her he did.

In 1972, newlyweds Peter and LeAnna Dunn accepted a mission from their church to open a home for runaway girls in New York City. In order to keep the girls occupied, they initiated a small woodworking business. The girls carved plaques and gifts that quickly became popular items at out-door markets in Greenwich Village. When the mission in New York was complete, the couple bought the woodworking equipment and installed it on their farm in Dalton, Ohio.

Peter spent the next two years building silos for area farmers to support his family, while perfecting his designs and manufacturing techniques during every spare moment. In 1977, he received an order for 3,000 items, allowing him to devote all his energies to his growing business. For the next twenty years, he designed every plaque, gift and each item of furniture. Today, a diverse group of employees contributes to the design process, resulting in a healthier company and broader market appeal.
In the early days, the work was labor-intensive. In time, the company began to computerize carving and laser operations and found it could compete successfully with offshore manufacturers. Today P. Graham Dunn serves over 4,000 accounts, most in the U.S., and the remainder in Canada and around the world.

P. Graham Dunn is located in Dalton, Ohio operating in a 140,000 square foot manufacturing facility. Inside the facility is an 18,000 square foot retail store and viewing gallery. Guests enter the massive two-story lobby where oversized plaques adorn the walls, scripture is carved into the crown molding, and where they?ll find one of Ohio?s largest indoor murals. Ascending to the second floor store, windows along each side give visitors a bird?s eye view of the production process from start to finish. Lasers in the store are available for custom engraved gifts on the spot. Additionally services are available to bring your own custom ideas to life. And if that wasn?t enough bargain shoppers flock to the Factory Outlet where we constantly add overstocked, scratch & dent, prototype, discontinued, and unfinished merchandise.

P. Graham Dunn opened two stores in Gatlinburg, TN, a store in Branson, MO, Walnut Creek, OH, and in Crocker Park in Westlake, OH.

While much has changed at P. Graham Dunn over the past thirty years, much remains the same. The first two employees of the company are still active in the business. Robert Shetler is vice president of manufacturing and Carol Currie who works in the shipping department. While Peter?s wife LeAnna no longer manages the finances for the business, she actively helps choose all the scripture engraved on the prints. Peter?s son, Paul, does much of the product design and custom work and his son-in-law Joe Knutson is the retail operations manager.

While we strive to ensure P. Graham Dunn is successful in a competitive manufacturing environment, we will never lose sight of the sacrifice the Graham Hutchinson?s made, for the service Peter?s parents contributed to China, and ultimately our mission to Lift Him Up.

RVP~1875, the world?s leading historical furniture shop and museum,
is located at 115 S. Wilson, in the historic Milligan Lumber, Grain & Coal
building in downtown Jefferson, Iowa. Owner and operator, Robby Pedersen, is a Master Furniture Maker with over 20 years experience, who builds
historically accurate furniture using only the tools, techniques and
finishes used in 1875. On display is one of the Midwest?s largest
assortments of 19th Century woodworking tools, including an 1860?s
foot-powered lathe, an 1870?s hand-crank ripsaw, and over 400 different
hand planes. Our showroom also holds over 100 pieces of unique pioneer
furniture.

Groups of all sizes are welcome. Drop in to see us and we'll show you
around, or our one-hour tour can be scheduled by appointment.

Amish owned and operated hand-crafted wood household items, play furniture and toys, Amish dolls, Lazy Susans, bread, and recipe boxes.
Assortment of stamps and supplies, Homemade cards.

Back in the 1800's the demand for large wooden bowls for making bread and for mixing and serving food kept many bowl mills in operation. The Great Alaskan Bowl Company is one of only a very few mills operating that use equipment designed from the machinery developed over a hundred years ago.

By cutting only 2-5 13" or larger trees per acre The Great Alaskan Bowl Company is a responsible steward of the forest. This process promotes a healthier forest by allowing some sunlight to reach the smaller developing trees. The freshly cut green logs (40-60% moisture content) are cut into lengths the width of the tree and split for turning. This process allows us to create up to 8 one-piece solid birch hardwood bowls ranging from 22 inches to 7 inches in diameter - all from a single split length.

After the bowls have been cut, they are sorted and stacked on carts for drying. The kiln drying process takes 4-6 days to complete and is the most critical step in the production process. Our progressive kiln monitors both the heat and moisture content and the bowls are removed when the moisture content reaches 6-10%. Because of our unique drying process we have less than 3% loss.

Each bowl is then individually sanded and branded before the finish is applied.

The bowls are dipped and coated with a unique blend of soybean oil, carotene, vitamin E and lemon that penetrates, conditions and seals the wood. This produces an all-natural finish ready for popcorn, salad, fruit and many other uses.

If you are coming to Fairbanks visit our showroom and see our bowl making process in person. We have demonstrations daily on the making of Birch Bowls. It is done behind glass windows right in the showroom.

Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers was founded over a quarter century ago to restore the lost art of fine woodworking. Formerly a Bates college professor, Tom Moser left teaching in 1973 to start making one-of-a-kind furniture in an old Grange Hall in New Gloucester, Maine. His wife Mary managed the selling and finances, while their four sons trained as young apprentices.

There was no business plan, no product, no sense of marketing and to their banker?s horror, no cash or cash flow.

The first advertisement which ran in Down East magazine read, "Antiques are prized for their qualities of age, design and purity of craftsmanship. Our furniture is inspired by traditional design, constructed with pride and executed by hand, restoring a relationship between man and his practical art." Since then little has changed in the company?s intent or product.

Tom?s early designs bore a strong resemblance to Shaker, Queen Anne, Pennsylvania Dutch and other antique forms. From spiral stairs to a waterwheel, from wooden canteens to a harpsichord, the company?s position was, "if it?s made of wood, we can do it." In time this search for a proprietary form was synthesized into a coherent and unified body of work for the home, office and academic environment.

In nearly thirty years, the company has grown from a one-man operation to over sixty cabinetmakers (about half men and half women). Tom Moser continues to conceive and design new products in collaboration with his youngest son, David. His oldest son, Andy Moser is an accomplished craftsman and works in the shop. Aaron Moser directs the company's growing sales to universities and businesses.

In 1987 the company built a new workshop facility in Auburn, Maine, not far from its original location. In addition to mailing catalogs, Thos. Moser Cabinetmaker currently operates five showrooms located in Charleston, Chicago, Freeport, New York and San Francisco.

As I sit down to write this introduction I think back to the things that I'm surrounded by that create a comfortable haven called home. My grandmother's old steamer trunk, an aged leather sofa and the same style leather work boots I've been wearing since I was twelve offer reassuring proof that I'm home.

This is how I would like our furniture to make you feel. We lavish detail, from design to creation, on each piece to provide you with a unique piece of furniture that reflects your personal taste and priorities. I hope you find something special that adds comfort to your home.

All the people I'm fortunate enough to work with at William Alan recognize the responsibility involved with having our furniture invited into your home. To honor that responsibility we will always make the best piece of furniture we can build and stand behind it like we've been doing since 1958.