Our story begins in the midst of a major renovation project. Timothy Davis commissioned Joe Moseley Killian at the end of 2016 to transform a carriage house built in the 1870s into a modern dwelling. It was stripped down to its stone walls and had no utilities. Learning all the necessary trades along the way, Killian was drawn towards furniture making. In the summer of 2017, Shaun Miller commissioned Killian to design and build out a community-focused barber shop in Point Breeze, H. Smith Shop.

The culmination of these projects is Moseley + Killian.

Since then, we have worked with Reese + Rae Design, Ferox Studio, Benita Bianca Salon, Think Company, and many private clients to realize elegant, lasting furniture.

We invest deep thought into the careful design and craft of each piece that leaves our shop. With a background in architecture, our design process is rigorous and we spend time investigating the broader context of each environment our work will live in. Here in Pennsylvania, we are endowed with some of the world’s greatest, and varied forests. Each tree species offers us inherent qualities of strength, resistance to decay, elasticity, grain pattern, and color. Instead of painting the wood or dressing up composites as hardwood, we seek to find the most appropriate species of wood for each of our projects.

We primarily build with American black walnut, white oak, and ash because of their natural abundance in our region and durability across the board. Our wood is cut from naturally felled trees, and we source through Pennsylvanian mills, ranging from a single person sawmill to a large, 3rd generation family-owned lumber operation. The common denominator is quality and a love for the trees. George Nakashima spent most of his career right here in Pennsylvania, and he believed that the act of crafting furniture was a spiritual act, birthing a new life for each fallen tree. We carry that tradition forward, under the influence of American Shaker furniture and traditional Japanese joinery technique.