We are excited to announce our initial partnership with Krownlab by featuring their KOR linear pulls and knobs on our furniture. Thoughtfully designed with attention on every detail, they are available in three different finishes and pair beautifully with our Modern case line. Stop by either of our showrooms to see them in person.

Kor Pull in Brass on an Eastern Walnut dresser

Kor knob in black on Cherry nighstand

Recently a group of Joinery employees had the amazing opportunity to work with Hyla Woods and the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation on their reestablishment of Oregon White Oak woodlands in the Mt. Richmond Forests. Our team had a wonderful educational tour of the Hyla property including Oregon Oak forests, the Hyla solar powered kiln, and learned about their efforts in maintaining a diversified forest, while creating lumber products to sustain their business. To learn more abour Hyla Woods click here. Thank you also to the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation.

We are excited to be a part of this year's Portland Winter Light Festival with featured artist Anne F. Crumpacker with her work Enso - A Sense of Awareness.  We are featuring a selection of her illuminated sculptures at our SW Yamhill showroom thru May 12th, 2019. Come by to experience them first hand Monday thru Saturday 10 - 6 and Sunday 11 -5. We also have a few special events planned throughtout the duration of her show.

Join us for First Thursday during the PDXWLF at our downtown location at 922 SW Yamhill, February 7th, from 5:00 - 8:00 to enjoy light refreshments and appetizers.

* We will also be hosting a Meet the Artists event in early May. Details to come.

About the work:

Ensō - A Sense of Awareness

By Anne F. Crumpacker

Studio Assistant, Jimin Lee

Anne leans to the light and elevates interiors with crosscut bamboo luminaries. Each piece Anne creates is a microcosm and metaphor for life, the interconnection of all things. She strives to expose the inner beauty of bamboo and share her innermost thoughts with audiences. Patterns and rhythms emerge, revealing the interconnection of forces within nature, from microscopic life to wave movement. Interconnectedness is the source, the revelation, and the energy she seeks to express in all of her work.

Japanese aesthetics deeply influence this artist. She reflects on minimal design, the simplicity and clarity of expression, the close connection to nature through the bamboo, and the serenity and tranquility she experiences when working with her hands. It is her meditation and she is in the flow. This has become the core of her practice she simply cannot do without.

In any business, innovation is key to engaging employees and improving upon products and processes. To help bring these moments to light, we came up with our "J-Coins." We have about 50 of these circulating among our staff at any given time.

While this may not capture all the innovations that happen throughout the company, we have found it to be a nice way for us to all get involved and share in each other’s innovative moments.

Here is how it works:

When you observe an innovation from another team member, you give them a J-Coin. The goal is not to see how many you can collect.  Rather, it is for the recipient of the J-Coin to recognize an innovation from a teammate as quickly as possible.  At the end of every month we recognize innovations at our company meeting, and at the end of the year the employee with the most innovations wins Innovator Award.

This program (along with the idea and design of the J-Coins) was the idea of Taryn, our Furniture Designer.  And our inaugural coin was given to Tenzin, pictured below, for devising a new clamp pad.