Custom Furniture
Introduced in 1994, Martin Pierce’s custom furniture pieces were available in very limited quantities and sold “to the trade only” via design professionals. The collections are no longer being made and the information here is given to complete the biographical timeline. The furniture designs and skills honed to make them have been carried forward and have evolved into collections of door hardware and art.
The furniture collections were primarily made using solid, American grow, kiln-dried walnut with figured English brown oak, myrtle burl and tamo veneers. Many of the pieces from the Hedgerow and Ascot collections were characterized by a hand-hewn chisel detail which added a textural element that was part Martin Pierce trademark.
The Vine and Aspen collections of cased goods were all made as limited editions and each piece was signed, numbered, and dated by Martin Pierce. The edition size was usually 100 or less pieces.