Twenty years.
One maker.
Every piece signed.
STOW WORKSHOP · NASHOBA VALLEY, MA
Built in the Nashoba Valley.
Rich Buttiglieri has been building premium outdoor furniture by hand in Stow, Massachusetts for twenty two years. He works alone — in a workshop in the Nashoba Valley — selecting each board for grain and density, cutting each joint by hand, and marking each finished piece with the same oval branding iron he has used since the beginning.
He is not a furniture company. He is a furniture maker. The distinction matters.
Every chair that leaves this workshop has been touched by the same pair of hands at every stage of its making — from rough stock selection to the final RB cipher signed in archival ink beside the branding iron mark on the underside. There is no production line. There is no team. There is one craftsman and the work he has spent twenty years perfecting.
When you buy a Nashoba Studio chair you know exactly who built it, exactly where it was built, and exactly when it left the workshop. That knowledge is part of what you own.
Teak. Mahogany. Marine grade stainless.
Nothing that compromises.
Teak
Premium teak is one of the finest outdoor furniture materials in the world. Its natural silica content and high oil content make it inherently resistant to moisture, insects, and decay without any finish. Dense, stable, and beautiful, it weathers naturally to a silver grey patina or maintains its warm honey tone with periodic oiling. Nashoba Studio uses exclusively Grade A Premium Heartwood plantation teak — cut from the center of trees at least 20 to 30 years old, where natural oils and silica concentrate highest.
Mahogany
True mahogany is the wood of colonial furniture, classic boat building, and things intended to outlast their makers. Rich, warm, and deeply figured, Sapele African mahogany weathers naturally outdoors — developing its own patina over time or maintaining its reddish-brown tone with periodic oiling. The Grand Ease Collection uses premium Sapele throughout, with solid stock for the exceptional wide arm rests that define the collection.
For properties with direct coastal salt air exposure, Angélique is available as a premium upgrade. A Class 1 rated South American hardwood with centuries of use in European harbor construction, Angélique offers superior resistance to salt air moisture cycling that exceeds even teak in the most demanding coastal environments. Available on request.
Marine Grade Stainless
Every Nashoba Studio chair is fastened with stainless steel throughout — no brass hardware that tarnishes or softens in coastal salt air. Structural bolts are 316 marine grade stainless — the specification of boat builders and marine architects, impervious to coastal and freshwater environments. Slat fasteners are 305 exterior grade stainless. Neither grade corrodes, tarnishes, or requires maintenance. Both will outlast the wood around them.
Brushed Brass
The nameplate and dedication plaque on every Nashoba Studio piece are brushed brass — flush inset into the wood so that brass and wood read as one surface. The brass will develop a natural patina over time that deepens in contrast against the silvering teak or mahogany. It requires no maintenance beyond an occasional coat of Renaissance Wax if desired.
Turn the chair over and you find it there. Burned in. Permanent. The mark of the person who built it. It will be there when the chair is passed to the next generation and the one after that.
The public mark, facing the world. The brass nameplate on the face of the chair carries NASHOBA STUDIO in Caslon small caps, flush inset into the accent seat slat so cleanly that the brass and the grain read as one surface.
The private mark, for the person who knows to look. Burned into the wood. An oval, a hand plane, a name. Beside it, Rich signs his personal cipher in archival pigment ink and writes the month and year of completion. The same cipher he has used for over thirty years building furniture.
Every mark tells the story.
Every piece signed. Every piece dated. Every mark permanent.