Hello and welcome to my website.
Here's a bit about me.
I am a Scottish master craftsman furniture maker. I started my time as a furniture maker in the early 1970's with my Father and older brother in the family business; Joseph Charteris & Sons Cabinetmakers & Chairmakers, Markich, Fife, Scotland. My dad served his time with Donald Grant & Sons, Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1930's
We worked closely with the Antique Trade throughout the seventies and eighties and this sent a very wide variety of fine antique furniture through our shop and provided an excellent first hand education in antique furniture restoration and repair. The majority of the family business was commissions and other manufacturing. I have produced commissions and carried out restoration and conservation work for many of the finest homes and castles in southern Scotland.
I came to America in the late eighties to produce a product line and teach apprentices for a company in Virginia. I have supplied production models and samples of fine furniture for some of Americas largest manufacturing companies (see portfolio).
I recently teamed up with old friends at American River Cabinet in Sacramento California, a really great outfit with cutting edge technology and decades of experience producing very high-end custom interiors. It's like the future meets the past, classical design and furniture making skills meets high tech efficiency, together we have a very wide range of experience to offer.
Also we are very pleased to announce our museum quality antique and fine furniture conservation, restoration and repair service.
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