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Oak & Ash

Oak & Ash makes solid hardwood furniture that is meant to be inherited rather than replaced. Hall trees, dining tables, waterfall coffee tables and end grain boards, cut and finished in a shop in Columbia, Tennessee. No veneer, no flat pack, no particle board.

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A maker clamping a hardwood tabletop across a workbench in the Oak & Ash shop.
Sector
Furniture
Based
Columbia, Tennessee
Method
Made to order
Materials
Oak, walnut, ash

The brief

Oak & Ash started because good furniture had quietly stopped being available. Everything on the showroom floor was veneer over fibreboard, priced like the real thing and built to survive one move. So the first pieces were made for a single house, then for friends, then for anyone who asked.

Every order begins with a conversation about the room it is going into. Size, species, stain, hardware, the height of the bench, whether it has to survive a mudroom in February. The piece is then built to those numbers in the Tennessee shop, by hand, using solid oak, walnut and ash.

It is a slow business on purpose. One maker, a small number of pieces at a time, and a guarantee that if the result is not right it gets made right or refunded in full.

The Ashenvale dining table, a solid hardwood table with a sculpted pedestal leg, in a neutral dining room.
The Ashenvale Table. Solid hardwood on a single sculpted pedestal.
A walnut waterfall coffee table with a continuous grain edge in a living room.
Ravenfall Coffee Table. Waterfall edge, continuous grain.
A thick end grain walnut cutting board on a dark counter with herbs and a knife.
End grain walnut boards, with or without a juice groove.
A maker fitting hooks to a freshly painted hall tree in the workshop.
The hall tree, fitted and finished before it ships.
A close crop of an end grain walnut board showing contrasting inlay across the corner.
Inlay running corner to corner on an end grain board.

What makes it work

  1. 01

    Built, not assembled

    Solid hardwood throughout. Joinery that holds up to a century of use, finished by the person who cut it.

  2. 02

    Specified by you

    Dimensions, species, paint colour and bench style are chosen per order. Nothing here ships from a catalogue.

  3. 03

    Made in Tennessee

    Everything comes out of one shop in Columbia, using quality material and a fair amount of leverage.

  4. 04

    Guaranteed outright

    If a piece is not right, it gets corrected or refunded in full. That is the whole policy.

In their words

“My wife was tired of all the cheap veneer furniture out there, so I started building custom pieces for our own home. What began as a simple hobby slowly grew into Oak & Ash.”
Christian, co-founder of Oak & Ash.Christian R.Co-Founder, Oak & Ash

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