You do the fun part. Bring your own idea, or start from one of our designers’ pieces. Make it exactly yours.
We do the hard part. Engineered, tested for strength, made by expert craftspeople and delivered to your door in under four weeks.
- Under 4 weeks to your door
- No distributor markup
- No overseas shipping
- No standard sizes
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Why
The best furniture is made by hand.
We took out everything that made it expensive, and slow.
Design to delivery
Most furniture is made in bulk, shipped across the world, warehoused, and sold through a showroom. We don’t think you should pay for that.
AULË works the other way round. You design the table you want; a craftsman near you makes it; we deliver it, all in under four weeks. That’s it.
- Made to measureYou decide everything, and it is made exactly as you want it: drawn for you, and made to order.
- Made near youWe partner with independent craftsmen in your region, not overseas factories. Fewer miles, and a maker who stands behind the work.
- No middlemenNo importer, distributor or showroom between you and the maker, so the price is what the table costs to make.
| No. | Part | Qty | Finished size, in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top | 1 | 84.00 × 36.00 × 1.38 |
| 2 | Bearer | 2 | 27.73 × 2.56 × 2.36 |
| 3 | Post | 2 | 22.52 × 5.12 × 1.97 |
| 4 | Foot | 2 | 25.76 × 3.54 × 2.76 |
| 5 | Stretcher | 1 | 59.20 × 5.91 × 1.57 |
| 6 | Key | 2 | 7.28 × 0.63 × 0.47 |
Every table starts as a drawing.
- 01
Designed
Describe it any way you like, a sketch, a photo or a few words, and we draw every part to your size.
- 02
Checked
Before any wood is cut, every part and joint is checked for strength, so your table is built to last.
- 03
Made near you
A craftsman near you selects the boards, then cuts and joins every part by hand.
- 04
Finished by hand
Sanded and oiled by hand, then inspected against our standards before it is wrapped.
- 05
Delivered
Delivered by our own team, to your door, on a day you choose: under four weeks from your order.
The parts
Every part,
made for your table by hand.
Every part is cut from solid wood for your table and no other. The end frames arrive glued and finished. At home, the stretcher passes through both posts and a hardwood key locks each end, so the table comes apart again whenever you move.
Start from this table →If you can imagine it,
we can build it.
Your imagination is the only limit. Chevron panels under a racetrack top, an oval on solid slabs, five arms on one column, three splayed legs: every part is drawn to your size and checked before any wood is cut. Open one and make it yours.
Where the price
of a table goes.
A store-bought table crosses an ocean, then an importer, a distributor and a showroom each take their cut. Ours goes straight from a craftsman near you to your door. Better quality, better price.
The usual way
A typical imported solid-wood dining table, 60.00″ × 36.00″ × 30.00″
- $350$350
Mass-produced overseas
Wood and making, in a large factory, most often in Southeast Asia, to a few standard sizes.
- +$50$400
Shipped in a container
With hundreds of others, about 9,000 miles and four to six weeks at sea.
- +$70$470
Duties and port fees
Import duties, customs brokers and port handling.
- +$480$950
Importer and warehouse
Bought, stored until it sells, and marked up to cover the wait.
- +$50$1,000
Trucked to the store
By road to a regional warehouse, then to the showroom.
- +$1,000$2,000
The showroom
Roughly doubled again, for the floor space, the staff and the advertising.
- The table: wood and making
- Markup and shipping
About $350 of $2,000 is the table. The rest is getting it to you, and everyone taking their cut.
The AULË way
The same size, made to order in solid American wood and at your door in under 4 weeks
- $278$278
Solid American wood, cut for your table
Kiln-dried hardwood, chosen board by board and cut for your table alone, never to a standard size.
- +$966$1,243
The craftsman’s time
A master craftsman near you cuts and fits every joint by hand, to drawings made for you.
- +$126$1,370
Finished by hand
Sanded, oiled and inspected by hand, then wrapped with care. Bespoke from the first board to the last coat.
- The table: wood and making
All $1,370 goes into the table: solid American wood, a craftsman’s time and a hand finish.
The usual way is illustrative: rounded industry averages for each step, not any particular company’s figures. Both are before delivery and tax. AULË’s is our estimate for this table in New York City; every price is confirmed before production.