I design and build custom furniture and built-ins, from cabinets, shelving, and wardrobes to dining tables, credenzas, nightstands, and one-of-a-kind pieces made specifically for your space.

As a furniture maker I’m drawn to both built-ins and free-standing furniture for the same reason: the best pieces pair beautiful form with intuitive function and feel fully integrated into a room. Whether anchored or movable, each piece is designed to bring clarity to clutter, purpose to blank areas, and a sense that it has always belonged exactly where it lives.

Unlike typical built-ins or commercial cabinetry, my work is approached as furniture first—crafted with thoughtful proportions, real hardwood materials, and details meant to be noticed up close. The result is work that feels intentional and designed, not simply installed.

If you’re looking for custom built-ins or furniture that feels truly considered rather than assembled, this is the work I love doing.

Let’s collaborate on a custom furniture design:

inquire@flatow.furniture

Custom Furniture and Built-Ins

A handmade wall-hung walnut and beech cabinet.

Gallery

  • A round wooden table with three curved legs in a workshop, illuminated by sunlight and shadows.
  • Close-up of a round white oak table with sunlight casting striped shadows across its surface.
  • Close-up of curved table legs and part of the seat with shadow cast on a workshop floor.
  • Curved wooden table legs casting shadows on a dark, textured woodshop floor.
  • A round white oak dining table with three legs is cast with sunlight and shadows on a dark woodshop floor.

  • Radial match white oak top with cherry knife edge. Bent and tapered cherry legs.

  • A walnut cabinet with open and closed compartments in a woodworking shop.
  • A walnut wood cabinet in a woodworking shop, with multiple compartments and shelves, placed on a workbench.
  • Close-up of a wooden cabinet with open shelves and closed door, featuring rich wood grain and contrasting light and dark wood tones.
  • A walnut cabinet with multiple compartments and cubbies, sitting on a workbench in a woodworking shop.
  • Close-up of a wooden cabinet with open drawers and shelves, showing different shades of wood and construction details.
  • Empty wooden furniture piece with multiple small compartments, drawers, and an open space, placed on a workshop floor.

  • Hand cut dovetail drawers. Slip matched veneered doors and drawers. Detachable magnetic pulls and invisible magnetic catches.

    Feel free to reach out with questions or inquiries:

    inquire@flatow.furniture

  • Custom bench in mahogany front view
  • custom mahogany bench top side view
  • bench corner detail photo

  • Mortise and tenon joinery for strength and durability.

    Feel free to reach out with questions or inquiries:

    inquire@flatow.furniture

  • Close-up of a smooth, polished madrone surface in a woodworking shop with tools and equipment in the background.
  • Close-up of a madrone desk with a circular replaceable wooding plug on its surface.
  • Close-up of a madrone table on sawhorses.

  • Chamfered edge for wrist comfort and chunky aesthetic. Scribed to fit drywall space with no gaps.

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About Me

A portrait of David Flatow in his workshop in a black shirt leaning on a workbench in a woodworking shop, smiling with arms crossed.

I’m a furniture maker with a studio and workshop in San Francisco.

I individually design and build premium custom furniture and cabinetry with an attention to the details that matter most to my clients. My aim is to provide a high quality experience from the first email or phone call to the time I deliver a piece of furniture or complete an install.

I work closely with clients in the Bay Area, through a creative back and forth to design around their spaces and lives. I pay special attention to provide an experience and process that’s as high quality as the pieces themselves. Each piece is personally built by me in my shop in San Francisco from high quality materials with traditional techniques and aided by modern tools.

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white oak and cherry dining table
I made this desk from 10' slab of California native Madrone. I designed it to convert a closet into a workspace for a client in Mill Valley, CA. Handmade with care in my shop in Bernal Heights, San Francisco, CA.