We have long-term well-established relationships with our furniture makers and shops, who over the years have become very familiar with our style and high quality level. First, we determine which shop is best suited for the specific project and then provide to them detailed scaled drawings and material specifications. Our design team engineers and specifies joinery and construction methods to our fabricators to insure the beauty and quality we have imagined is produced as we have envisioned it.

When a design has been finalized with a client, we submit detailed scaled drawings to the makers for production. Our design office works closely with the fabricators to ensure quality control on every order. We, in turn, keep clients updated on the progress of production.

Our quality control team makes a point to visit our makers' shops on a regular basis to view works in progress. This keeps us in good communications with our fabricators so we are well-informed about progress and scheduling or orders; meanwhile we remain engaged in regular technical discussions about constantly improving ways in which we can craft our furniture.

Once the pieces are completed, they are inspected, photographed, authenticated and dated by tagging with our Lee Weitzman Furniture brass tags and upholstery labels. After inspection and photography, the pieces are prepared for a blanket wrap inside delivery into our clients' homes, or packed and crated into plywood crates and shipped to a receiving warehouse where they are uncrated, inspected again, and delivered to the customers home.

Solid Wood and Veneers
Our clients often ask whether we use solid wood or veneers. We then have to dispel the myth that wood veneers are only used on low-quality furniture as a cost-cutting measure. This cannot be farther from the truth. Veneering is an age-old / time-honored art dating back to ancient Egypt. As furniture designers, we are able to more fully express our designs by the graphic use of the variety of textures, colors and patterns found in beautiful wood veneers. Through the work of highly skilled craftspeople, veneers are carefully selected and matched to create interesting patterns such as starburst, sunburst, box-match, diamond-match and book-match to name a few. Because veneers are thin pieces of solid wood, the grain pattern varies only slightly from one piece to the next 13 in a series, which allows for excellent matched patterns that cannot be achieved using solid wood. Our craftspeople use appropriate glues and techniques so that the veneer permanently adheres to its substrate.

Solid wood is also an extremely important component of our furniture. It is used for table legs and chairs more than for flat panels such as table tops and buffet doors. We select only the finest quality furniture-grade hardwoods for use in buiilding our furniture.

Finishes
We finish our pieces mostly in an open grain semi-gloss conversion varnish or closed-pore high-gloss polyurethane. These finishes are the latest in finishing technology for clarity, beauty and durability. We offer several standard stain colors in addition to clear finishes, all of which bring out the natural beauty of the fine woods we use.