Artfully Made

For Randy Tuell and Victoria Reynolds, design is about more than aesthetics. Whether creating a one-of-a-kind texture or giving subtle curve to a table, the duo behind their namesake furnishings brand believes in keeping traditional craft alive. “Without industry support for small studios and artisans, the old-world hand-techniques will eventually die, and we’ll lose all that knowledge and diversity,” says Tuell. He and Reynolds met in college while studying architecture and launched their company in 2003. Today they operate out of their Northern California headquarters, where they design and manufacture a full line of handcrafted furniture, lighting, and accessories made in sumptuous materials like bronze, brass, agate, horn, and petrified wood. 

A lot of their design inspiration comes from early Art Deco and the natural world. The Fractal table, for example, is based on growth patterns of ice crystals; the newly introduced Foliose series emerged from Tuell’s current obsession with lichen. No matter the project, he says, “the touch of the human hand and letting the truth of materials speak are always key.