MYRA Studio is an employee-owned custom cabinetry and furniture workshop in Sonoma County, California. We combine decades of experience with the will to find better solutions by asking the right questions and using sustainable materials and processes.
We combine craft with curiosity and find that the real joy comes from collaboration.
We love what we do, and we think you will, too.
Lewis' mom, Myra, was a designer and talented craftswoman. She and Lewis' dad were passionate about the post-WW II design revolution ushered in by the Bauhaus with its doctrine of “form follows function”.
They set out to make their life an example of Mid Century Modern, with Lewis' dad’s designs and small furniture factory, and his mom’s skills as a seamstress, hand-made paper artist, and fiber artist. Myra and Stan helped found “New Jersey Designer Craftsmen” in 1950, which evolved into the American Craft Council. Most of their friends were fellow designers and artists, with jazz on the Hi Fi and carefully curated tableware. Everything had to meet a contemporary design standard. Myra was a perfectionist who could make almost anything from whatever materials were available. She was also a gracious hostess who always had room for one more at her table. Their legacy of fine craftsmanship and a respect for good design lives on at Myra Studio.
Myra with one of her fiber pieces, 1972
Dad with his college students in the shop
The Pileated Woodpecker, with its bright red crown and distinctive drumming sound, lives near us in western Sonoma County. This large bird, about the size of a crow, feeds on insects in dead trees
In a more poetic sense, the woodpecker is Nature’s drummer, and represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
As designers and makers, we strive to be in harmony with the rhythms or our materials, our clients, and the world around us.
Thank you, woodpecker!
