Rust & Root is a luxury furniture design studio. Built by hand in Hawaii.

Mango and maple dresser, with live edge drawer pulls.

Built-in walnut millwork. Design by WRNS Studio, photography by Olivier Koning.

Koa pune’e, a bespoke piece made for this living room.

Koa pune’e, a bespoke piece made for this living room.

“Persistence of Monkeypod,” a monkeypod coffee table.

 

Walnut and mango dresser. This piece has mango dovetailed drawer pulls.

Free form natural edge monkeypod headboard. Paired with walnut/monkeypod side tables.

Free form natural edge monkeypod headboard. Paired with walnut/monkeypod side tables.

Monkeypod dining table. Bookmatched slabs from a tree in Manoa Valley, Oahu. Steel table legs also made in the USA.

Monkeypod dining table. Bookmatched slabs from a tree in Manoa Valley, Oahu. Steel table legs also made in the USA.

False kamani cabinet along with Kelsey Napier’s “One” painting.

Napier headboard in walnut.

Napier headboard in walnut.

Floating mango live edge slab headboard.

Patchwork inlay detail in mango slab headboard.

“Koavoid” Console Table.

Nakashima-inspired monkeypod live edge bookmatch slab dining table.

Nakashima-inspired monkeypod live edge bookmatch slab dining table.

Monkeypod console with signature frame and panel doors.

Rust & Root Furniture shapes beautiful pieces of local Hawaiian hardwoods using modern design and unique style. We strive to create beautiful custom furniture, and we stand behind our craftsmanship. Clients come to Rust & Root for a special piece of furniture with great attention to detail. Good quality work is important and creates the foundation of each piece. Equally important is good design. Our furniture strives to combine solid craftsmanship with quality design.

Please take a look through the portfolio, organized by piece in the menu. Homeowners remove trees for new development, growing too close to a home or trees that have fallen from a storm (although the latter is rare). If these logs were not milled up into slabs, they would be put through the wood chipper or dumped to decay naturally. We’re also very lucky here in Hawaii that the urban reclaimed lumber is absolutely gorgeous. Our favorites are monkeypod (most commonly requested), mango and koa. Many other less common local species that also make amazing furniture include kamani, false kamani, Cuban mahogany and Norfolk pine. None of the local Hawaiian lumber that we use has been harvested for the purpose of making furniture. We encourage clients to follow along with the process of building a dining table like this from raw slab to finished product.

Before making the final glueup, it is important to test the to make sure all of the angles are correct, the tenons are in the right place and that the seam is going to close up tight.

 

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