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Century Furniture: The North Carolina House That Grades Every Finish by Hand

Century Furniture, the North Carolina house available through Sutter & Vale, finishes every casegood by hand in its Hickory workshops. That process runs to roughly 25 steps and includes a grade...

The Theodore Alexander Althorp Collection: Furniture With a History

The Althorp Living History collection from Theodore Alexander translates archival pieces from the Spencer family's ancestral estate into furniture built for daily life. Sutter & Vale carries a ...

Hickory Chair: How a North Carolina Workroom Has Made Furniture Since 1911

Hickory Chair, founded in 1911 in Hickory, North Carolina, is one of the few remaining American furniture houses that frames, finishes, upholsters, and ships every piece under a single roof. Sutter...

Baker Furniture and Finn Juhl: The 1951 Collection That Brought Danish Modern to America

Baker Furniture introduced Danish Modern to the American market in 1951, when Finn Juhl partnered with Baker to produce the first Danish Modern furniture collection manufactured for American homes....

3 Small Decor Swaps That Make a Big Visual Impact

Three focused swaps, each taking under an hour, can shift the entire visual register of a room. Replace a lamp that has stopped earning its place, introduce art at the right scale, and compose a tr...

The Winter Living Room Playbook: Texture, Weight, and Lighting

Winter calls for weight, warmth, and surfaces that hold light rather than scatter it. The right combination of heavier upholstery, layered textiles, and low-angle lighting can shift a room from bar...

Why Your Sofa Pillows Look Wrong (and How to Fix Them Fast)

Sofa pillows usually look off for one of three reasons: too few pillows for the sofa's scale, sizes that are too uniform, or inserts that are underfilled. Sutter & Vale carries Gabby's pillow r...

The Case for Solid-Wood Storage: Strength, Weight, and Longevity

Solid-wood storage pieces carry more weight, cost more to ship, and demand more from their joinery than veneered alternatives. That tradeoff pays off in durability and repairability over decades of...

The 2-Minute Rug Size Test That Never Fails

The right rug size comes down to one rule: every key piece of furniture in a seating or dining group should share the rug, or at least touch it. Sutter & Vale applies this test across every roo...

How to Build a Cinematic Dining Room for Winter Entertaining

Theodore Alexander's dining collection, available through Sutter & Vale, gives you the raw material to build a room that holds candlelight and conversation through a long winter evening. Table ...