Gat Creek builds all of their furniture in the United States. They produce about half of their furniture in an over-sized workshop in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. A collection of more than 25 individual workshops – many owned by Amish and Mennonite families – hand builds the remainder in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Gat Creek approaches furniture manufacturing in a holistic manner and take pride both in what they create and how they create it. They make each piece of furniture specifically for you. The artisan who makes it signs and dates his/her work. Gat Creek works exclusively with domestic hardwoods, and they are careful that all of their wood comes from sustainably managed forests. They also create family-friendly jobs for over 150 talented people. Thanks to their locally sourced material and production, Gat Creek avoids oil-intensive shipping, deforestation and the unmitigated pollution that’s allowed with overseas production. Simply stated, they care equally about their products, their people and the environment.

Gat Creek uses no assembly lines. They simply learned to build furniture by copying antiques. Builders of the 19th century furniture, specialists in the art of fashioning pieces of wood together referred to themselves as “joiners”. At that time, people bought furniture directly from the person who crafted it – long before the introduction of plywood and other engineered materials.  By using the highest forms of construction that allow solid wood to expand and contract over time and with the changes in season, joiners built furniture to outlast their customers’ lifetimes. Gat Creek holds this heritage sacred and apply it daily to our own work.

For more about Gat Creek, please visit: http://www.gatcreek.com/

Visit Bowen Town & Country Furniture at 1910 Mooney Street in Winston-Salem, NC for an excellent selection of Gat Creek Furniture!