KW · § III About · The workshop & the people The Bronx · New York
§ III — About · Est. 2008

Two principals,
twenty-six hands,
one address.

§ I The thesis About · 2008
We make closets only. Every room, drawn, milled, finished and dry-fit at the Bronx workshop before it leaves the floor.
§ 02 The principals Two
Principal · Design direction

Alessandra Rota.

Trained in architecture in Milan. A decade at Boffi and B&B Italia. Renders every elevation herself.

From
Milan, Lombardy
Studied
Politecnico di Milano · M.Arch
Previously
Boffi · B&B Italia · 10 years
At Kloset Workx
Design direction · Drawings · Client
Languages
Italian · French · English
Signs
A.R.
Principal · Workshop

Jonas Kreutzfeld.

Master joiner from Bornholm. Fifteen years building case goods for Krogager. Runs the floor. Hand-cut joinery, every drawer.

From
Bornholm, Denmark
Trained
Møbelsnedker · Copenhagen guild
Previously
André Krogager · Konzerthaus Berlin · 15 years
At Kloset Workx
Workshop · Joinery · Quality
Insists on
Hand-cut dovetails · every drawer
Signs
J.K.
§ 03 A short chronology From the friend's walk-in to the floor
  1. 2008 A friend on Riverside Drive. Sixty-two square feet, three runs of solid oak. Drawn, milled, and installed in eleven weeks. The first room we ever built and the room that named us.
  2. 2011 A small bench in Long Island City. Alessandra and Jonas share a 900-square-foot rental. Eleven projects that year, all referrals. The waitlist becomes the reason for everything that comes next.
  3. 2016 The Bronx floor. Eighteen thousand square feet in Mott Haven. A mill section, a finish room, a dry-fit hall, a drawing room. Capacity for forty rooms a year.
  4. 2021 Twenty-six hands. The team reaches its current size. Six designers in the drawing room, fourteen in the shop, three in finishing, three on install. Every piece signed by the maker who built it.
  5. 2026 · Now The register. Over four hundred projects on file across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Westchester, the Hamptons, Hudson Valley, and Connecticut. Wednesdays and Fridays, the floor is open by appointment.
§ 04 The floor, in numbers
18,000
sq ft
One floor, Mott Haven · the Bronx workshop
26
hands
Designers · joiners · finishers · installers
40
rooms / yr
The bench limits the calendar, not the other way around
100%
in-house
Drawing through dry-fit, before a piece ever leaves
§ 05 The team · in register Senior makers
Drawing room
  • M·L Mira Lindqvist Senior designer · Stockholm
  • N·O Nora Okafor Drawings · Cooper Union
  • C·W Clara Wen Drawings · RISD
  • K·M Kenji Murakami Project manager · Tokyo
The shop
  • D·A Diego Aragón Lead joiner · Cuenca
  • T·B Theo Berenger Finishing · Lyon
  • E·T Elif Tezel Hardware & metals · Istanbul
  • S·R Sebastián Ruiz Senior installer · the Bronx
+ Eighteen more on the floor Apprentices to senior installers · every piece signed
  1. I The method Five movements, from the first conversation to the maker's signature.
  2. II Selected projects The numbered file of rooms drawn from this shop.
  3. III A library in Westchester A field note on a country project — from the drawing board, through the Bronx, to the room.
§ 06 The shop is open by appointment

Walk the floor.

The workshop
the Bronx workshop
Mott Haven · the Bronx
Wed & Fri · 10–18 · By appointment
The studio
382 Canal Place
The Bronx
Tue – Sat · By appointment
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