Matthias Pliessinig

Matthias Prliessinig is a custom, artisan furniture maker from Philidelphia. He specializes in steam bent wood furniture that has a very interesting water-like flow.

He hand builds custom seating ranging from 2 people up to 20. His work has also been used as wall mounted sculpture.

His market is mostly new buildings that set aside a certain amount of their construction cost to the arts as required by law. Also, his work is private, however very costly.

He uses primarily white oak, once the wood comes out of the specialized steamers, he then has about 30 to 90 seconds to lay the wood before it starts to dry and cool.

All of his cuts are done by hand with a normal set of saw types.

The ends of his work is "double strutted" which means that there is a strut on the inside and outside.

All of his work is hand polished and stained after a final curing process to lock the wood in place.

His work is very interesting, some of the most interesting furniture I have ever seen. His process was also very unique, however most of his tools were normal. I was happy to know that he hand builds all of his work, I feel that in the computer age the skill of hand crafting and woodworking is being lost.

http://www.matthias-studio.com/