Real wood, stone, metal, leather and glass — finished in any color you want.Real samplesIn your hands before you choose
Solid woods, stone, metal, leather and glass — dozens of materials to choose from, and any color you can name. We send real samples, so you decide by hand, not on a screen.
The drawing is initialled in the room. The cabinetry is stamped at the bench. The plate is set in the back of the carcase, where the next maker will find it.
Designed in 3D, milled from solid wood in our own Bronx shop.
Configured from a catalog of engineered-panel modules — or designer fronts fitted to modular (often IKEA) carcasses. Local shops vary in method and capacity.
02Core material
Solid timber, metal, painted finishes, leather, stone — by tier.
Engineered panel with laminate or foil; lacquer, ply or lino fronts on particleboard carcasses; or whatever the shop happens to specify.
03Who designs it
An architect-trained principal — every elevation, by hand in CAD.
A franchise designer working inside system rules, an online configurator, or the cabinetmaker themselves.
04Fit to the room
Designed to the building — every out-of-square corner surveyed.
Confined to fixed system or carcass module sizes; bespoke fit only if the shop has time.
05Who installs it
The makers who built it.
Subcontracted installers, self-install, a third party, or — in the best case — the shop itself.
06Signed & numbered
A signed plate and a kept register since № 1001.
Not the practice anywhere else; only rarely with a local shop.
07Drawings kept
In perpetuity; revisited at ten and twenty years.
Typically not retained — and where retained, retrieval is uncertain.
08Guarantee
25 years on the cabinetry, a lifetime on the joinery.
Limited and franchise-dependent, or simply “varies.”
This compares each company’s publicly described model, not any specific product or current offering. California Closets and Reform are trademarks of their respective owners and are referenced here only as well-known points of comparison.
Nine projects in, not one delay I had to explain to a client.
— Studio Vesper, New York
Ten years on, the metal has gone the color of the morning.
— № 1042 · Carnegie Hill
She signed the drawings in the room. In twenty years I had not seen that happen.
— Studio Marit · SoHo
Clients identified by project number, by their preference.
§ — In good company
Our partners.
A closet is one part of a considered home. We work alongside a small circle of houses we trust — for the walls around the millwork, and the wardrobe inside it.
