Fyrn is a San Francisco company that believes in creating connections between people, places, and materials. With an obsession for perfection and a lot of love, we promise to continue the tradition of craft by making high-end objects more accessible and useful for people's everyday life. The company’s award winning Stemn Series is the foundation for a broader furniture system that aims to change the way people relate to and value the objects they choose for their homes, inspiring a move away from disposable culture.

Stemn has already become a favorite among well-known design firms and a go-to choice for commercial spaces around the Bay Area and beyond. Early restaurant customers include James Beard winning chefs on both coasts, always busy joints like Bellota, Shakewell, The Morris, Komi, and Slanted Door Group's latest project Rice and Bones. Comfort and durability have also made Fyrn an easy choice for office spaces such as Google, Dropbox, Discord, and Kimpton.

Marrying old world craftsmanship with an industrial edge in its Mission district workshop, Fyrn leverages a family history of craftsmanship, proprietary hardware, and unique machines for manufacturing which are designed and built in-house. The secret to Stemn is courtesy of the sculptural Stemn bracket (patented and made by Fyrn). Sturdy, replaceable and uncomplicated, it is a truly beautiful piece of exposed hardware that enables Fyrn to build strong, high-end furniture that can ship flat and assemble at home without sacrificing an iota of grace or durability. All chairs and stools are also available fully assembled and are customizable by wood finish, bracket color and upholstery making them versatile enough to fit a multitude of design environments.

In April 2017 Fyrn won two Architizer A+ Awards for residential seating, both the Popular Choice award and the juried award (with jurors such as Bjarke Ingels and Yves Behar), In September 2017 the Stemn Series was also recognized by The Architect's Newspaper in the residential seating category.

Quote on Design Process by founder Ros Broughton:
“Instead of starting with the big vision, I started with the constraints. I tried to overcome them through a system of hardware, parts, and pieces that integrated the warmth of wood with the strength of metal. The design of Fyrn Stemn was inspired by thinking about how I could create a scalable manufacturing process in the Bay Area that would allow for high-end furniture to ship easily, making it more accessible to more people. The products had to be straight-forward, for example, a chair should look like a chair, be comfortable and it should last a long long time."

Quote on Fyrn’s Philosophy by co-founder Dave Charne:
“I think of Fyrn as starting a new tradition of craftsmanship in the US, making it relevant and sustainable – in many ways – in today’s economy. And that’s ambitious. We are trying to do some very basic things that feel quite difficult, even extraordinary: we want to restore lasting value to products; we want to offer a good alternative to disposable culture; we want to prove that manufacturing in the most expensive city in America is possible through innovation and creativity.”

ABOUT THE NAME:
The word Fyrn is an Old English prefix, pronounced “fē, yərn/,” meaning: ancient, of old. The name marks the company’s roots in traditional furniture making by people that take pride in working with their hands to make useful and beautiful things.