Where craftsmanship meets technology
We are a creative studio that believes in the power of bold ideas and meticulous craft. Every project is an opportunity to push boundaries.
Selected Work
We welcome the opportunity to get involved as early as possible in your design process to help efficiently evolve your design for manufacturing, while preserving its intent and vision.
Process
Scope
Honest scope, materials and budget before you're committed. We give you real numbers early so nothing surprises you later.
Embedded in your design process to refine details, resolve fabrication problems and select materials before they become costly surprises.
Fabrication-ready shop drawings produced directly from your design intent, precise, dimensioned and ready for the floor.
Physical tests of form, joinery, texture and finish before full production. Reduce risk and refine the outcome before committing to material.
Precision 3-axis routing, cutting and forming in wood and sheet materials. Complex geometry executed with repeatability and care.
Complex traditional and contemporary wood construction from intricate cabinetry to architectural-scale installations.
Surface preparation, staining, lacquering, texture and hardware. Finish is where craft becomes visible.
On-site delivery, assembly and final placement. We see every project through to the last fastener.
Bars, restaurants, hotels and spas. Custom millwork, feature walls and bespoke furniture that defines a guest's first impression.
Kitchens, living spaces and private commissions designed and built to a level of craft that production furniture cannot reach.
Offices, retail and branded environments where material quality and spatial detail communicate directly with the people in them.
Staircases, ceilings, cladding and structural elements that are both load-bearing and sculptural, fabricated to tolerance.
Gallery and public work at the intersection of parametric design and hand craft. Objects that hold up under close inspection.
Tables, seating, shelving and storage designed for a specific room, a specific client and a specific life. Available for commission.
Integrated lighting designed as part of the millwork, not added after. Coves, reveals and diffused surfaces that feel inevitable.
Pavilions, booths and event installations built to perform under scrutiny and ship reliably. From the IDS to international venues.
Chinchilla Design is a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio specializing in complex woodwork, digital fabrication, and precision craft.
We operate at the intersection of advanced design technology and traditional making, helping designers and clients realize ambitious ideas that would otherwise be difficult to build. Contemporary design software and CNC technologies are expanding what is possible in wood and material fabrication and in turn, a new design language is emerging. To best explore this language, we believe it is best achieved through a company with a fluency in design and a deep understanding of material.
Our role is often that of a bridge. We help connect design intent and physical execution, digital models and real materials, and creative ambition and manufacturing reality. We specialize in projects where standard fabrication methods fall short.
We frequently work in a design-assist capacity, advising on material strategy, fabrication logic, and production methods early in the design process to ensure efficiency, feasibility, and design integrity.
Based in Vancouver and working internationally, we partner with designers and clients who are pursuing technically ambitious, materially expressive, and carefully executed projects.
As for the name: chinchillas bathe in dust. They roll in fine volcanic powder to keep their coats clean, a grooming ritual that looks, from the outside, like deliberate immersion in the stuff most animals try to avoid. Anyone who has spent a full day in a woodworking shop will understand the reference immediately. The dust gets in your hair, your clothes, your coffee. By the end of the day you have been thoroughly coated in it. It started as an inside joke and ended up sticking.
Designer and builder specializing in digital fabrication and traditional craftsmanship. Graduate of Architectural Studies from Carleton University, known for innovative tiny house designs featured on HGTV's "Tiny House Big Living."
Oversees day-to-day operations of the fabrication shop, managing CNC machinery, material sourcing, and production workflows. Ensures precision and quality in every piece.