Dining Room

Maria Yee has hit our showroom floor and we couldn’t be more thrilled! 

Maria Yee, Inc. is a U.S. Company with an international reputation for handcrafted furniture and a new favourite in lifestyle design. More and more we are becoming aware of the importance of ecofriendly productivity in every area of our lives.  Furniture making is no exception and when it comes to eco conscious production, Maria Yee has been making big strides in her contemporary green furniture designs.

While not the most cutting edge conceptually, the Santa Cruz designer does make eco minded, heirloom quality furniture that you can purchase for your home without totally breaking the bank.  And that, dear friends, is a major accomplishment.  Stylistically, her work is often an asian inspired modern mix.  We are featuring her gorgeous Laguana Dining Room and stunning Calistoga Bedroom. Both tastefully reflect her inspiration.

Her innovative manufacturing techniques and materials are what are so groundbreaking.  Most of the furniture is made from Bamboo Timbre, a proprietary solid bamboo specially developed for furniture manufacturing.  The bamboo culms, or stalks, are flattened, layered and bonded together in defined patterns to create solid boards as thick as 8 inches.

To that she added a new twist, Bamboo Joinery, an application of traditional Chinese joinery techniques to her material that allows her to eschew the use of nails and or screws  in her furniture. Joinery provides unyielding strength, ensuring that furniture will not weaken, squeak or crack over time.  Wood contracts or expands in response to humidity.  Maria Yee’s interlocking joints expand and contract with the piece, ensuring the strength is never compromised.  Furniture made with nails or screws will weaken over time as the wood shifts around the hardware. Using joinery techniques, including mortise and tenon, dovetail and floating panel, expert craftsmen handcraft her pieces.  Seal it all together with glue that meets E1 standards and you have quite a compelling product line.

The environmental and structural  benefits go on and on including no MDF or particle board, vegetable tanned leather, water base finishes, Tung Tree Oil finishes, formaldehyde free adhesives, recycled packing materials, and a state of the art, energy efficient manufacturing facility. 

If you are someone who both cares about the environment and appreciates the art of fine furniture, Maria Yee is a must see product for you.