LEE TIGNER
The mission of Early American Furnishings is to connect modern lives to our Colonial heritage with fine handmade home furnishings crafted from reclaimed and recovered old growth lumber. Using a combination of technique, material, and communication of historic relavence, the American story of her great forest is brought into the home, where fingertips can touch the lighter of the Heart Pine, Wormy Chestnut, Bird's Eye Maple, or the millennium of growth rings from a 'sinker Cypress".
Often a whisper of the saw kerf from a steam powered sawmill or a mark from the swing of the broadax is left in the finished piece as a reminder of this connection to the past and the sense of place in America. Antiques of great distinction such as the desk where Jefferson penned the Declaration or a farm table where Francis Marion sat to convince a young man to take up arms with him are simply out of reach, but the wood fiber still exists today, in old buildings, barns, homesteads and the bottom of our rivers and swamps.
The founder of Early American Furnishings feels that there is no better way to honor our heritage than through reclamation of this perishable resource than to create by hand a beautiful and historic piece for future generations.
Often a whisper of the saw kerf from a steam powered sawmill or a mark from the swing of the broadax is left in the finished piece as a reminder of this connection to the past and the sense of place in America. Antiques of great distinction such as the desk where Jefferson penned the Declaration or a farm table where Francis Marion sat to convince a young man to take up arms with him are simply out of reach, but the wood fiber still exists today, in old buildings, barns, homesteads and the bottom of our rivers and swamps.
The founder of Early American Furnishings feels that there is no better way to honor our heritage than through reclamation of this perishable resource than to create by hand a beautiful and historic piece for future generations.
