Meet Andrew Brant

I’m Andrew, and every day I get to use my hands and my heart to work with some of the most dynamic, exciting, exceptional and heartfelt people I’ve ever met on amazing projects. I make art, sculpture, and furniture that’s built so thoughtfully, so nice, that your great grandkids will cherish it as much as you do.

Our spaces have such an impact on how we think and feel. Maybe after the last couple years we all really know that. I know the feeling of moving across the country for a job or a love, to an empty white box an a duffle bag of clothes, wanting to make it mine and not wanting to just fill up a landfill with plastic junk in a couple years when it breaks.

I’ve grew up in Missouri, but lived in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, and I like to think everywhere I go I attract positive energy. People who can stand on a Brooklyn roof at the manhattan skyline and say “They might not want me but they better be ready for what we’re going to make”. People who don’t subscribe to the status quo, that are only choices in life are what are given to us. People with the treasures and scars from a life lived as creatively as possible, as curiously as possible, as imaginative as I’ve ever seen.

And these are the kind of people I get to collaborate with. Every day. Expanding, opening my mind, never doing the same thing twice.

When I make a one of a kind piece of furniture for someone, I treat it like fine art. It is fine art. It’s an investigation into our relationship with nature and the natural world. My work has traditional joinery overbuilt to last, wood on wood. Almost every day of my waking life is going through piles of wood, sustainably sourced or reclaimed from buildings or set aside from mill’s as the ‘discards’, to elevate them again to a place of honor and high art.

And most of all, it’s sustainable. Our planet is in crises. Making things out of organic, sustainable and compostable materials isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s a necessity and for me, a commitment. I couldn’t and wouldn’t do it any other way.