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| A Message from Warren Hile |
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Morris Rocking Chair
HS0030 |
Certainly Hile Studio has experienced tremendous success in
the past decade due to the rebirth of the Arts and Crafts movement. But
even more — the key to our success is our philosophy on how and why
we build our furniture. The artists of the period, Gustav Stickley, the
brothers Greene and Greene, Dirk Van Erp, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles
Limbert, and Frank Lloyd Wright, all designed using clean honest lines,
and natural materials. We at Hile Studio pride ourselves in remaining
true to these ideals.
In the late 1980s our Craftsman bungalow was finally restored
and we wanted to fill it with the appropriate furniture. Unfortunately,
very few of the originals were to be found, and when we did find a piece,
it was usually in bad repair, in need of new upholstery, or it was just
one dining chair. So I decided to build a Morris Chair for our living
room. It needed to be comfortable because we intend to use it and it needed
to be solidly built. But it also needed to blend in with our antique pieces
and the restored interior of our home. As I continued to build more furniture
I carried this theme on with every piece. And that tradition has continued
with Hile Studio — we build furniture to be used, and we build it
as if we are going to live with it. Careful studying and experimenting
has allowed us to offer furniture today that appears to have aged, beautifully
complementing fine antiques as well as many contemporary pieces.
We have become an interesting dichotomy in that while we use
state-of-the-art equipment, each piece is still hand-selected, hand assembled
and hand finished. We carefully produce works of art, and yet meet the
demand for our work in a timely fashion. Our commitment to you, our client,
is to live by these philosophies. The end result is a satisfied customer
and many years of continued enjoyment from your Hile Studio heirloom.
— Warren Hile
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