Welcome to Friend of Furniture

Where Mitch and Deb are in the serious business of making sad furniture happy.

A close-up of a woven rattan or cane chair back with a black and beige pattern.
Mitch and Deb, owners of Friend of Furniture, with their dog Monique, standing in their Asheville River Arts District studio with chairs awaiting seat weaving repair on the wall behind them.

What We Do

Close-up of a hand-woven chair seat showing traditional crisscross weaving pattern.

At our workshop in the South Slope of Downtown Asheville, we restore and refinish select pieces of furniture for our clients. It's also the playground for our creativity where we find new ways to recycle furniture pieces that are beyond repair and give them a whole new life in the form of art.

Chair seat weaving and repair has become our true passion and the core of our business. We repair and restore cane, rush, splint reed, binder cane, shaker tape and more on chairs throughout Asheville and Western North Carolina. Whether you need chair recaning, seat rewaving, or furniture restoration, we keep our schedules and hearts full. And when an old chair can no longer perform as a chair, it becomes a wine rack, a small shelf, or even wall art.

Restored antique chairs with hand-woven seats displayed alongside woven basket trays in Asheville furniture repair studio.

Visit Our Studio

Find us at RAD Rendezvous, where you can see our restored antique furniture as well as new experiments with furniture art on display and for sale.

RAD Rendezvous is at 87 Roberts St, Asheville, NC.

Furniture artisans repairing a wooden chair frame in Friend of Furniture's Asheville workshop, with chairs awaiting caning repair in background.
Close-up of a woven chair made in a black and beige intricate pattern.