Turning House Furniture announced that it is partnering with Horchow.com to introduce its new line of furniture conceived to honor vintage woods reclaimed from old buildings. The products are exclusive to Horchow and Neiman Marcus Direct.
Turning House approached Horchow a year ago, while the new company was still in the planning stages, with their sustainability concept of using reclaimed wood from 75- to 100-year-old buildings to create furniture.
“We're delighted to partner with Turning House to introduce this exciting new product and we feel the character of the old wood fills a unique niche in our current Horchow assortment,” says Jeanie Galvin, Sr. VP and GMM Hardgoods for Neiman Marcus Direct.
“These will be one-of-a-kind pieces with a documented history of rare, if not extinct wood, initially recovered from the Corriher Mill in Landis, N.C.; the Rip Van Winkle Distillery Warehouse in Lawrenceburg, Ky.; and a tobacco warehouse in Greeneville, Tenn.,” says Spencer Morten III, CEO and chairman of Turning House Furniture and sister company, Turning House Millworks. “While the furniture design reflects today’s contemporary lifestyles, the history and stories of the wood will continue for generations to come. We have successfully given old wood new life and created beautiful furniture.”
Eighteen pieces featured on the Web site celebrate the character of old growth hardwoods, each with a documented history of the source of the lumber supplied by sister company, Turning House Millworks. The indigenous woods include black walnut, wormy chestnut, southern long leaf pine and fiddleback maple, among others.
“Turning House Furniture is a living example of the viability of reviving the wood of forgotten and abandoned buildings,” Morten says. “There is something redemptive about being a good steward of the earth and turning old wood into a beautiful piece of furniture.”
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About Turning House: Turning House is a vertically integrated organization. Sister company, Turning House Millworks provides the wood for Turning House Furniture by tediously deconstructing old, abandoned buildings destined for landfills. Each structure is unbuilt in reverse order in a painstaking process that can take up to five years, recycling an amazing 98 percent of the structure. One building, for example, can save 19,000 trees. Beautiful old growth hardwoods harvested from old factories, mills and tobacco warehouses are given new life as furniture, flooring, cabinets and other building products.
Turning House Furniture, a member of the Sustainability Furnishings Council, is based in Bassett, Va. and targets upscale retailers and interior designers. Turning House Millworks is located in Landis, N.C. As a member of the U.S. Green Buildings Council (USGBC), the custom order millworks offers full documentation for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits on all reclaimed lumber products. For more information, visit
www.turninghousefurniture.com.