Ash Mackintosh Bedroom Suite

Arts and Crafts furniture, handmade one piece at a time, has been our sole enterprise since 1984.

We own and manage a 160 Acre, sustainable "Tree Farm" near the headwaters of the Buffalo National River and the Ozark National Forest, in NW Arkansas, where we raise, log, saw and kiln dry our own lumber for our furniture. We also produce all the building lumber needed for our homes and shop.
Our Mobile Dimension Sawmill has been providing lumber from our logs since 1978.

Besides lumber for our furniture, we saw Timber Frame house patterns for ourselves and neighbors. We installed a Nyle Dehumidification Dry Kiln in 1985. It is capable of slowly drying 5000 bd ft of lumber at a time.
It was the final link that guarantees our lumber to be the highest quality.

Our work was used to reacquire the Copyright on the Roycroft Orb-and-Cross, and we were the first to produce and display a comprehensive grouping of Stickley Reproduction furniture at the Grove Park conference in 1989. You will find our furniture among collections of the finest international Masters of the style, most notably in "Brantwoode" in Hellensburgh, Scotland. We were chosen to design pieces for the Governor's Reception Room, Old Supreme Court Chambers, and Senate Chambers for the Capitol Restoration Project in Little Rock, Arkansas. In keeping with our complete dedication to "sustainability", one of our Podiums was chosen for Geddes Hall at Notre Dame University. The entire project of the building, fittings, and furniture incorporated sustainable products wherever possible. The effort has received numerous Awards for its comprehensive "green" design.

Dryad Studios consists of Michael & Judy Schmitt, and our three children. Alana, Jennifer, and Christopher.

Our commitment is simple….Tastefully designed, handmade, functional furniture of unsurpassed quality.
To ensure an enduring enterprise, we add a broad measure of sustainability to our efforts.

We selectively harvest trees from our timberland, which has been managed in the American "Tree Farm" system since 1978. We also maintain a low impact lifestyle, by being largely self-sufficient. Several acres of Organic garden and orchard provide much of our food. We heat our house, shop and studio, over 10,000 sq ft, with wood that is cut on the property.

We stand firm in our commitment to honor the treasure that is our forests by producing a high quality product that is desirable and durable, through a process that is sustainable and ecologically sound.

To view sustainability through the narrow focus of changing light bulbs, or using less gasoline is really an attempt to justify an elaborate ruse. It is the core of our lives that need to be shifted towards a more durable path.

The interaction between artisan, customer, and community is a first step along one of those paths. We humanize and personalize what has become a monolithic consumption pyramid. The gratification of ownership becomes more a pleasure of involvement. We do not build furniture to sell to YOU….rather, we build furniture FOR you. Our customers are involved in every step of the design process.

We rely on tasteful design and uncompromising craftsmanship to define our view of the past and the future of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Our furniture will continue to enhance lives long after we are dust. We regard the privilege of affecting your life with our work with the utmost seriousness.

WE GUARANTEE OUR WORK TO EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

WE GUARANTEE THAT OUR FINISH WILL SPOIL YOU FOREVER.

WE GUARANTEE THE FINEST FIT, FINISH, AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL, PERIOD.

FAILING THAT, WE WILL FULLY REFUND THE PURCHASE PRICE ON SAFE RETURN OF THE FURNITURE. NO QUESTIONS ASKED