About C&V Designs
Made by us, from beginning to end.
The Studio
We’re Chase and Valerie, a husband-and-wife team designing and making furniture, tools, and objects for the home and everyday use. We take each project from its first sketch through production and final packing.
We both graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, but our professional paths developed in different directions. Valerie brings the eye of an award-winning fine art photographer and the organizational skills developed through years in finance. Chase brings a systems-minded approach shaped by work across music, technical production, and product development. He leads the studio’s design, prototyping, and production systems, connecting ideas to the tools and methods required to make them.
Eventually, we chose to step away from those careers and pursue a shared dream of building a studio where we could design and make things together. Today, those different perspectives shape every project.
How We Work
We begin with use. Before deciding how something should look, we consider what it needs to do, where it will live, and how it will be handled. Ideas are tested through prototypes and revised until the proportions, construction, and details work together.
Our process moves between digital fabrication, machining, traditional handwork, and finishing. We choose the method that best serves the object. Some of the wood we use comes from naturally fallen trees on our small farm, which we mill and dry for future projects. Across wood, metal, and engineered materials, our choices are guided by function, durability, and the character they bring to the finished piece.
DESIGN | PROTOTYPE | MAKE
Made Here, Start to Finish
Every object we sell is designed and made by us. We produce, assemble, inspect, and pack each piece ourselves. We do not buy finished goods and place our name on them. If it carries the C&V name, it has passed through our hands from its first idea to its final package.
