Custom pieces
Tables, benches, consoles, screens, storage, headboards, casework, and one-of-a-kind elements developed for a specific room.
Custom furniture design
Furniture designed as part of the architecture.
Proportion, use, material, comfort, and craft, composed for the room rather than placed into it afterward.
A room at the scale of touch
Furniture is where architecture meets the body, the hand, and everyday life.
A table, bench, cabinet, screen, bed, or built-in can complete the proportions and movement of a room in a way that a generic selection cannot.
Apel Design approaches furniture through the same design language as the building: use first, then form, material, detail, making, placement, and the relationships between every element around it.
The interior still leads.
Furniture is presented within Interior Design because its value comes from the larger composition. Custom pieces and carefully selected furnishings support the architecture, art, lighting, circulation, and way a client intends to live.
Capabilities
Designed, selected, and placed with purpose.
Built-ins + millwork
Cabinetry, shelving, bars, display, wardrobes, media elements, and architectural millwork coordinated with walls and systems.
Furniture selection
Scale, comfort, material, color, performance, lead time, and compatibility considered across a complete furnishing plan.
Procurement + installation
Schedules, approvals, purchasing coordination, receiving, placement, styling, and final adjustment when included in scope.
Evidence in the work
Rooms become convincing through relationships.
The work shows furniture operating with art, light, material, view, and built form: evidence that the interior is strongest when no element is treated in isolation.
Selected interior work
Furniture + composition
Seating, tables, display, lighting, art, and circulation are balanced as one room.View related work ↗
Luxury residential
Scale + daily life
Furniture mediates between the room’s architectural scale and the way people gather, move, and rest.View related work ↗
Maliview · Malibu Mountains
Built-in continuity
Cabinetry, stone, lighting, hardware, and adjacent furniture extend the architectural material language.View related work ↗Furniture + objects
Made for the room, and memorable beyond it.
A selected archive of tables, seating, and one-of-a-kind objects shaped through proportion, structure, material, and use. Each piece can stand on its own while remaining part of a larger interior composition.
How we work
Begin with the room, finish with the detail.
Program
Define use, comfort, capacity, storage, circulation, durability, budget, and the role of each piece.
Compose
Study placement, scale, proportion, material, color, art, lighting, and relationships across the room.
Develop
Prepare selections or custom design information; coordinate samples, details, fabricators, lead times, and approvals.
Install
Coordinate delivery, access, placement, alignment, styling, protection, and final adjustment when included.
A strong fit for
Clients who want the room to feel complete, not furnished.
- New luxury residences and significant renovations
- Rooms requiring custom scale or built-in solutions
- Clients combining custom pieces with curated furnishings
- Interiors integrating art, lighting, and display
- Projects that benefit from design-through-installation continuity
Custom furniture and casework
Made for the room it sits in.
Every image below is from an Apel Design project.
Questions
Useful answers before we begin.
Does Apel Design only create custom furniture?
No. A complete interior may combine original pieces, built-ins, edited selections, vintage work, art, and objects according to the room and the client.
Can furniture be coordinated during architectural design?
Yes. Early coordination can improve room proportions, power, lighting, circulation, openings, built-ins, storage, and procurement timing.
Is purchasing included automatically?
No. Selection, purchasing, receiving, installation, and styling responsibilities are defined in the project scope before orders are placed.