Furniture, MADE Personal
Natural materials. Clean lines. Enduring comfort.
Seeks designs and builds custom wood furniture rooted in warmth, personal connection, and a deep reverence for form and material.
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About seeks
A Pacific Northwest furniture studio rooted in craftsmanship, connection, and natural materials.
Seeks is a modern furniture studio creating pieces that feel personal — built for the way people live, adding beauty, warmth, and function to daily life. Each table, chair, and console is crafted to order in the Pacific Northwest, where the forests and natural rhythms shape our approach to material and design.
Founded by Lorin Seeks, the studio blends precision and warmth — drawing from Scandinavian and Japanese traditions to craft timeless, sustainable furniture that brings people together. Each piece carries the maker’s hand, the character of natural wood, and the belief that furniture should tell a story over generations.
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Wren takes its name from the Pacific Wren — a small bird whose voice carries far beyond what its size suggests. This desk is built on the same idea: a compact footprint with real presence, made for the desk work of an ordinary day — mail, bills, notes, or just a place to sit and think.
Inspired by the Danish modern tradition — and by Arne Vodder's work in particular — Wren is sized for the home rather than the executive suite. The legs are lathe-turned and the aprons are housed directly into the round leg shape before stepping back to a mortise-and-tenon joint inside, a detail that required building a custom router jig to cut cleanly. The result is joinery with no visible gap where round meets square, solid and precise without calling attention to itself.
The front apron and drawer fronts carry a partial ellipse, inset in a deeper tone of the same white oak used throughout the piece. The color shift comes from ammonia fuming rather than staining — a process that reacts with the wood's natural tannins and penetrates far deeper than a surface stain. The ellipse does double duty as the drawer pulls, so the design element is also the function.
On the right side, a bank of three drawers appears to float — attached from beneath the desktop with no visible support from the ground. It's a detail borrowed from Vodder's own work, and it's what gives an otherwise simple desk its quiet moment of surprise.
Materials
Frame & Desktop: Solid White Oak
Apron & Drawer Fronts: White Oak, ammonia-fumed for a deeper inset tone
Finish
Hand-rubbed hard wax oil for a natural, low-sheen surface that enhances the character of the wood
Dimensions
Overall: 28.75" H × 46" W × 22" D
Drawer Bank (outside dimensions): 18 1/8" H × 14.5" W × 20" D
Construction
Solid white oak frame and desktop throughout
Lathe-turned legs with aprons housed directly into the round leg shape, stepping back to a mortise-and-tenon joint inside — cut with a custom-built router jig
Partial ellipse inset on the front apron and drawer fronts, achieved through ammonia fuming, doubling as the drawer pulls
Floating three-drawer bank, attached from beneath the desktop with no visible support from the ground
Side hung, dovetailed drawers.
Lead Times
All furniture is made to order.
Standard lead time: 8–12 weeks
Actual timelines may vary based on current volume and project complexity
Once your order is placed, we'll follow up with a projected start window and provide updates throughout the process