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Specialties
Stephen C. Staples produces eclectic, unique, timeless, environmentally-friendly furniture art crafted from 200 and 300 year-old reclaimed wood. Owner with his wife Christine, master craftsman and furniture designer, Stephen has spent over four decades studying his medium, refining and perfecting his craft. Today he produces some of the most unique and sought-after creative art furniture in the country. The wood that Staples reclaims offers not only incomparable beauty, but each board holds its own story having survived the rigors of time. The heirloom quality furniture that Staples creates adds a lasting legacy to this historic wood. Each of his creations is paper labeled, signed and dated and then he adds his unique signet mark on the surface.
History
Established in 1973.
Christine and Stephen Staples started out in Norton, MA in the business of restoration of antique furniture. In the early 1980’s they built reproduction furniture. In the late l980’s they were in the architectural millworks business building reproducing parts of historical building that were being restored. In the mid 1990’s they began building custom farm tables and other creative art furniture from reclaimed wood and metal salvaged from early New England homesteads and factories until the present time. Their lifelong work is a labor of love to preserve history in the form of hand crafted furniture and accessories.
Meet the Business Owner
Stephen C. S.
Business Owner
Ever since Stephen C. Staples was a young boy, he admired and treasured antiques of all kinds. He was intrigued by the history of antique wood and artifacts and how the early settlers felled the virgin timbers of New England to build their homesteads and handmade their tools, furniture and whatever else they needed to work on the farm.
Stephen presents the time worn surface of the materials he works with. It is the history of the marks and imperfections that tell the story of the wood or metal in his furniture art. His furniture is admired and recognized for its rustic simplicity and understated elegance. It is the beauty or serenity in his furniture art that comes with age, when the life of the object are evidenced in its patina and wear that can only come over time. Stephen often says, «Time is the greatest craftsman».
Every since Christine and Stephen opened their business in 1973, they built business around restoring, repurposing and reclaiming historical materials.