Meridian Desk Set
Ebonized oak · Walnut · Blackened steel
$480
Mid-century modern custom woodworking, cut by hand.
Right Angle Design Woodworking builds bespoke mid-century modern home and office pieces in ebony, zebrawood, wenge and canary wood, finished with brass, blackened steel and woven fabric. Veteran and minority owned, made in a working Atlanta shop, drawn for your room before a single board is milled.
Drawn to your room
Scale drawings and a photo of the actual boards before anything is cut.
Exotic hardwood stock
Ebony, zebrawood, wenge and canary wood selected board by board.
Old school, new school
Hand-cut joinery from Carl, laser engraving and metalwork from Dominic.
What mid-century modern means at this bench
The period's furniture hid almost nothing. Structure was the ornament: a mitre splined in a contrasting wood, a tapered leg that shows exactly how load travels, a lid whose grain runs unbroken across the carcass. We build that way because it still holds up — the piece reads calm across a room and rewards you up close.
What is new is the tooling and the mix. Laser engraving, modern metalwork and precise milling sit alongside hand planes and cut joinery. Wood is the original plastic — it was the material that could be shaped into anything long before anything else could — so we let the grain carry the design instead of covering it up.
Pieces you can buy today
See every piece
Drift Catchall
Gaboon ebony · Brass rim
$240
Column Table Lamp
Ebony · Solid brass · Canvas shade
$620
Dining Room Silverware Box
Black walnut · Maple accents · Solid brass hardware
$485
Standard Chess Board
Black walnut · Maple · Danish oil polish
$850
Pizza Serving Board
Black walnut · Yellow heart · Beeswax board conditioner
$380
The commission process
Six steps from conversation to crate.
- 01Tell us the room, the use, the deadline and the budget.
- 02We draw it to scale and photograph the candidate boards.
- 03A deposit reserves your slot on the bench and the material.
- 04Boards are milled, rested, milled again, then joined by hand.
- 05Sanded through the grits, oiled, waxed, signed.
- 06Crated and shipped nationwide with care notes for your wood.
Built in Atlanta, Georgia — shipped across the country
We are a veteran and minority owned shop working out of Atlanta. Carl Tyler cuts the joinery, Virgil Pennie draws the work, and Dominic Cole runs the laser and the metal. Atlanta clients can visit the bench, see the boards and collect finished pieces in person; everyone else gets photographs at each stage and a crated delivery.
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Service area
- Metro Atlanta studio visits · Nationwide shipping
- Specialties
- Bespoke mid-century modern home and office goods, exotic hardwoods, laser engraving, mixed wood and metal work
- Contact
- Send the shop a message
Common questions
What is mid-century modern custom woodworking?
It is furniture and home goods built to the mid-century vocabulary — clean silhouettes, visible joinery, warm hardwoods and restrained metal or fabric accents — but cut to your dimensions rather than a factory's. Every piece we make is drawn for a specific room before a board is milled.
What woods do you work in?
Gaboon ebony, zebrawood, wenge, canary wood, walnut and ebonized oak, with brass, blackened steel and woven fabric as accents. Stock is chosen board by board so the figure lands where a hand will rest.
How much does a custom piece cost?
Small-batch objects in the collection run from about $95 to $850. Bespoke commissions are quoted after we see the room and the dimensions; a deposit reserves your slot on the bench and covers material.
How long does a commission take?
Most commissions ship in four to eight weeks depending on the wood, the joinery and the queue. You get a shipping week at the moment your deposit reserves the build slot.
Do you ship outside Atlanta?
Yes. We build in Atlanta, Georgia and ship nationwide, crated or double-boxed by size. Atlanta-area clients are welcome to collect from the shop.
From the Journal
All entriesWhat actually makes a piece mid-century modern
Tapered legs and walnut are not the whole story. A working definition of mid-century modern woodworking from an Atlanta shop that builds it by hand.
Choosing exotic wood: ebony, zebrawood, wenge and canary
How the four woods we use most behave in the shop and in your home — hardness, movement, finish and what each one is right for.
How a custom woodworking commission works, start to finish
The six stages of a bespoke commission at Right Angle Design Woodworking — from the first conversation to the signed, oiled piece arriving at your door.