The workshop is a reflection of Centerbrook’s devotion to craft, to a sense of the handmade, to the beauty and humanism with which we endeavor to imbue all of our buildings. It is the first of many more...

Editor’s Note: The Centerbrook Chair Workshop is a design/build exercise offered semiannually to architectural staff and is led jointly by Patrick McCauley, the firm’s Master Model Maker and Industrial...

Chairshop participants Ben Mayne, Cassie Archer, Scott Allen, and Hugo Fenaux presented their designs to Peter Basil, Mark Paisley, and Mike Brown, who were beamed in from Moser’s workshop in Auburn...

Julianne CancalosiChair class was for me, if anything, a good excuse to learn the tools and the trades of the illustrious woodshop. I had access to a similarly sized shop at school, but since I chose...

Hugo Fenaux: Most Beautiful, Highest Level of Craftsmanship, Most Practical Ben Mayne: Most Ingenious, Most "Architectural" Cassie Archer: Most Comfortable, Best Use of Materials, Favorite Chair We enjoyed...

Photos from the Chairshop Last Friday, we held a socially distant unveiling, which featured a beautifully orchestrated presentation broadcast remotely to our staff. Jeff Riley and Patrick McCauley described...

Jill CartagenaJill described how she conceived her chair, a modern take on a classic Adirondack, from Pinterest inspirations through sketch iterations and foam study models to two full-scale mockups...

Aaron Trahan“With an amateur understanding of power tools acquired through renovations to a 19th century Victorian Gothic home, I joined the chair class to learn patience, design, and craft when working...

We also “set up shop” with machines, tools, and materials so I could replicate one of our favorite chairs and engage curious museum patrons. Being the gregarious type, I did more talking than working...

Also a talented architect, Dan has collaborated with a bustling parish in downtown Stamford, Connecticut, the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist, to conceive a new cloister and renovations to its parish...

This is more than a monograph of an architecture firm’s projects. In these pages we partners of Centerbrook (Jeff Riley, Mark Simon, Chad Floyd, and Jim Childress) show our work of the last 15 years...

We have designed numerous handmade pieces of furniture, light fixtures, sculptures, and ornament for our buildings in an effort to reconnect ourselves through the built environment to what it means to...

We understand independent schools’ curricula and are well-versed in student life at boarding and day schools. We have witnessed how our architectural designs inspire their creative process, strengthen...