Do you have the 10 essentials? Brooklyn designer, David Metzger, has solved all your problems. With 10 pieces of furniture, your apartment is done! Having designed furniture for architects for years, he launched his 10 Essentials line four years ago in an effort to solve the biggest and most common problems that architects and interior designers were constantly coming to him with. An unabashed lover of clean, modern furniture, Metzger has boiled all of his knowledge down into 10 classic solutions that can work across a broad spectrum of contemporary interiors.
Made in Canada by a small run shop, each piece is meticulously veneered in Douglas Fir. Different woods can be chosen, such as the trendy dark wenge or oak, as well as different stains or finishes. And the prices? Very competitive. While custom order changes will raise your bill, the standard prices are more than reasonable for work this fine:
Queen Bed w. 6 Drawers - $3615
Low Dresser w. 6 Drawers - $3380
High Dresser w. 5 Drawers - $3000
Dining Table (6') - $3185
Dining Table (8') - $3380
Bookshelf (shown) - $4800
And if you like his style, Metzger will show you more as he does custom design/build work and can take care of even more than 10 Essentials. MGR
What a great idea! And so well done, too.
I'll take one of each!
Competative? - Who the hell are you people = You could buy the originals they are knocking off for those prices! - Yikes.
Matthew,
Clearly you haven't bought fine furniture lately. Yes, the stuff at Ikea is cheaper, but it is cheaply made and will not look or work half as good in 5 years. Ten Essentials, like most custom built furniture, is a whole other kettle of fish. Not only is it composed of higher quality materials, it is carefully made (not by you, out of a box), and will last your lifetime.
This is not a defense of Ten Essentials, as much as a defense of small designers who are getting their furniture built for retail and would like to woo you away from mass market manufacturers like Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel AND Ikea. If you don't like the style, fine. But respect the workmanship.
Best, Maxwell
I'm interested in the originals that Matthew is refering too. What are the originals if these aren't?
I think it's a little classist and naive for anyone to get on someone's case for stating what many people who read this site are probably thinking, "who can afford this kind of stuff?". I make a decent living and am in grad school and I'm sorry I can't really afford to go anywhere else but Ikea and retailers of that ilk. Stop being so "let them eat cake" when someone expresses what I feel is a fairly normal response to furnishings that cost more than what most people make in a month. 4800 dollars for a bookshelf? oh come on now!
It's so classist to be such a slave to "craftsmanship" and all that foolishness and not be aware that some people are simply UNABLE to pay that kind of money but still want items that are decently made.
I look at these items and realize, that perhaps this site and for that matter the book "apartment therapy" isn't really speaking to me so i guess it was a good thing that I did not purchase the book, even though it gets rave reviews from my friends who happened to be mostly upper middle class doctors or people living on trust funds.
I couldn't disagree w/ Ange more; I'm a graduate student, but someday (soon) I won't be. Somehow, Ange's class angst has passed me by; I expect that in a few years, I'll be able to afford furniture like this, if it's my priority at the time.
If I want generic beige transitional crap, I can go to any furniture wholesaler in any exurb in this country. I come to AT to see the exceptional, which is implicitly a non-egalitarian pinnacle. Sometimes AT's ideas involve how to achieve the exceptional cheaply, with much effort; other ideas display outstanding products that take less effort.
Neither is Middle America, but neither is "classist" or foolish.
Ange, people may be unable to pay for this furniture and still want items that are decently made. I'm not sure one can find that reliably in our society, but one way or the other, AT is not responsible for a social justice deficit in our country. Those people aren't AT's problem.
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