About Design Workshop – Our roots in NC

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Originally from Warsaw, North Carolina David attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Journalism major. Little did he know his high-school shop lessons and a brief stint at an advertising agency would lead to him founding a successful custom furniture company. While living in New York, working for an architectural firm, David… Read more »

How We Got Started

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The first shop was opened in 1992 in an old tobacco barn in the middle of a Warsaw, NC field with the mission of creating well-crafted, expertly calculated, custom furniture. Initially most of the materials were imported. The Design Workshop team quickly realized that keeping things local was the way to go. Not only could… Read more »