Speke | Klein - Furniture Design and Production



		Founded in 1999, Speke \| Klein is a design and manufacturing company which offers its signature collection of modern furniture to the North American market. Pragmatism, traditional craftsmanship and a distinctly modern approach to design inform Speke \| Klein's style. The company presents consumers with a constantly evolving collection of high-quality modern furniture products, including the work of emerging international furniture designers, which is sold in selected specialty stores across Canada and the United States. Every year Speke \| Klein launches a new line at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, the largest contemporary residential furniture exhibition in North America. Its award-winning designs have been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles, and exhibited in trade shows in Canada, the US and the UK.

		About Speke \| Klein's Quality
		Quality emerges from a high degree of attention to details, materials, craftsmanship and technique. For instance, the inside of a typical Speke \| Klein cabinet drawer, with its beautiful dovetailed joints, is every bit as important and carefully conceived as the outside of a cabinet. Speke \| Klein furniture products are designed to last for many generations, and apply the finest modern production methods together with time-tested traditional techniques of wood joinery that include finger jointing, mortise and tenon, and dovetailing. Maintaining a relatively small production facility allows firm founders Robin Speke and Thomas Klein to maintain the quality control consistent with their ideas about timeless design. Both co-founders were trained at England's renowned Parnham College, informing an attitude grounded in a European design sense that combines straightforward functionalism with understated elegance.