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This site showcases the fine craftsmanship of Victor Stanwick. Victor's furniture gets its inspiration from the Mission and Arts & Crafts movements, with inspired details by the artist and incorporating any desires or suggestions from his clients. Whether you are looking for a simple table for your living room, a coat rack for your foyer, or a full dining room set, you will find something here that will fit your needs.

After serving in the U. S. Navy, Victor spent almost twenty years at South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan as the volunteer metal worker/welder aboard the ship Wavertree. Victor was also the engineer aboard three other vessels at the museum: the m/v Vernie S., a hundred-year-old wooden lighter (supply vessel), the m/v Andrew Fletcher and m/v DeWitt Clinton (excursion boats run by the Seaport Line). As engineer aboard the Vernie S. Victor was forced to learn quite a bit of carpentry in order to help keep the vessel afloat and found he liked working with wood.

When the volunteer program ended at the Seaport, Victor spent several years working as a volunteer carpenter for the John Noble Museum in Staten Island where he built the library, the ship's wheel exhibit on the second floor, most of the model exhibit stands and various benches and other pieces of furniture throughout the museum.

As the years went by, Victor realized that all this volunteer woodworking was more fun than his real job, and in 2008 Victor accepted the offer of an "early retirement" from IBM, where he worked as an interface developer/help systems engineer, and went into business for himself building furniture. Turning his hobby into a career has been a scary move, but Victor claims that he has never been happier in his whole life.