Workshop
UPVOTERED is a small team and a workshop. We work both the wood and the steel ourselves; the drawing board is a few steps from the welder.
A small team that draws, cuts, welds and finishes furniture. Having the same hands on a piece from start to finish gives us two things: we know why everything is the way it is, and you know exactly who to ask. We work out of a shop on Auckland Street in Dorchester, Boston, and every piece is built there.
Good furniture is a few right parts. So the collection is built on a handful of repeating components: the same leg section, the same joint, the same edge chamfer. Sizes change; the language stays.
A visible weld, growth rings on an edge, a corner rounded by hand. And what we don’t: hidden chipboard, joints that can’t come apart, legs that wobble after two years.
Nothing added for show; every joint has a job.
Tops that can be sanded, steel that can be recoated, screws that can be replaced.
If we say solid, it’s solid. If we ever use veneer, we’ll say so.
One leg a millimetre out spoils the whole table.
The idea, the size, the room. We talk it through on paper first.
Every joint and hole is dimensioned. Nothing is cut until you sign off.
Boards are picked, acclimatized and cut; steel tube and sheet are cut to size.
Steel is welded and ground; wood is glued up, flattened and sanded.
Hard wax oil for the wood; powder coat, blackening or brushing for the steel. Layer by layer, by hand.
Corners protected, parts labeled, fixings in the box.
The workshop is in Dorchester, Boston. Come and see samples and pieces in progress — Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm, by appointment.