1st post!

This is my first blog post (yeah I know, jumping right into the 2000's)...Mountain Modern is a sustainable furniture design/build studio located in the teeming metropolis of Salt Lake City, Utah, internationally recognized as a hotbed of up-and-coming design talent. I'll be posting pics of our furniture, works in progress and cool stuff going on at the shop.

First a little background: Mountain Modern was founded by me, Tony Church, and Donny Haynie about a year and a half ago. I've been designing and building furniture professionally for the last ten years (five of those with Tony Church Furniture+Design), Donny for the past eight.

We started Mountain Modern to focus on modern furniture built with sustainably harvested hardwoods, green materials like sunflower board and environmentally friendly waterborne laquers. We love modern design, but feel that a lot of mass produced modern furniture is lacking a human element, feeling like it was spit out of a CNC machine or thrown together by a ten year old Indonesian kid at the end of an 80 hour work week.

Our stuff is designed and built by skilled artisans, which results in a striking piece with individual character that's instantly recognizable and invites human interaction.