Kalon Studios

Kalon Studios is a design studio in Los Angeles making contemporary furniture in wood, stone, metal and natural textiles, with material integrity and longevity as the organising idea. Founded to use design for positive change, it has spent nearly two decades building pieces meant to endure in use and to grow more beautiful with age, from beds and tables to seating and storage.

Production is regional and ecological: small, often family-owned FSC-certified workshops, lumber harvested from forests local to where each piece is made, non-toxic finishes and a Batch Size One model in which a single item is as efficient to produce as a run of a thousand. Every piece reaches at least 90% material efficiency, and the studio designs for flexibility of use and repairability rather than planned obsolescence.