About

Imaginary Furniture began in the summer of 2018 with a goal to create high quality, honest products that people actually care about. We believe that you should love everything you own. That’s why everything we make is designed to be meaningful, useful, and last a lifetime.

Through the use of technology in combination with high craft and experience, we provide a unique customer service. Our products are crafted using local lumber often milled and dried right here in the shop from naturally fallen trees around the farm. We try to be a straight line from tree to heirloom quality furniture. Everything we make is completely unique and handcrafted by us, so you’re sure that your piece is absolutely one-of-a-kind.

We operate out of our shop on the site of the historic Howie Gold Mine, just south of Charlotte, North Carolina. It's one of the most beautiful and lovely places in the world and we're so happy to call it home.

- Maddox Humphries

Founder | Lead Designer

Our Process and Philosophy

How we make furniture: Forest to table

Our goal is to handle the entire furniture making process in-house. That means eliminating the supply chain altogether. The Imaginary Furniture shop is part of a larger roughly 100acre farm on the site of the historic Howie Gold Mine in Waxhaw, NC. If a tree falls down, we’ll go and mill it into boards. From there the boards are stacked under cover for at least a year to slowly air dry after which they are put into our hot kiln at 150 degrees F for 12-24 hours to achieve an appropriate moisture content of 6-12%. That lumber is then faced, planed, joined, and finished into your unique piece. Of course if you’re looking for a specific wood species that can’t be found on the farm we source lumber from ethical suppliers here in North Carolina.

Sustainability through practice and permanence:

In a world of fast fashion and complex supply chains we take great pride in making products from the ground up… literally. We make every effort to limit our impact on the environment through the use of natural materials, finishes, and construction practices that will last a lifetime. If you buy a piece from us, it should be the last time you’ll ever need to purchase that product again. This philosophy extends to our designs as well. Our style is meant to be timeless and relevant despite changes in tastes and trends over time.

“Perfection is not a universal truth, but an individual’s inability to find a flaw in another”