IRION COMPANY FURNITURE MAKERS I started Irion Co. Furnituremakers in 1977, after learning the trade from my father. He started his business, The Berwyn Furniture Shop,in 1948, initially to repair and refinish furniture and to restore antique furniture, then evolved into making furniture as well, and then started selling furniture made by others as well […]
Curly cherry highboy built by Irion Co. My name is Louis Irion, and my wife Wanda, and I are the owners and founders of the Irion Lumber Company. Our lumber company is the outgrowth of a custom furniture business I started in 1977, called Irion Company-Furnituremakers. We were making high end eighteenth century furniture to
The finest stands of black cherry are found in the forests of North-central Pennsylvania, the result of the unfortunate clear cutting of our northern forests in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Our forests were principally hemlock and white pine, and after they were cut over and abandoned, the area regenerated primarily as hardwood
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Not only is it possible, using wide boards can add value to your pieces. By Louis Irion It was well into my woodworking career before I even heard the myth that you couldn’t use wide boards in furniture and millwork because they were absolutely prone to misbehavior. I do remember my woodworking professor at industrial
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