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\"Furniture\"<\/a>
Courtesy of Hugo & Hoby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a small Northeast Baltimore warehouse, Fred Kukelhaus, MS \u201911<\/strong>, who studied environmental planning and management<\/a>, shows off some pieces of furniture for a current commission, a corporate headquarters redesign in Bethesda.<\/p>\n

\"Furniture\"<\/a>
Courtesy of Hugo & Hoby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The communal tables, made from thick American chestnut salvaged from a 19th-century mill floor, came from a shop near Providence; the 18-foot executive boardroom table was crafted from a giant black walnut tree recently felled by a storm in New Haven. A day earlier, Ben Young<\/strong>, Kukelhaus\u2019 co-founder in the company of Hugo & Hoby<\/a>, had trucked these down to Baltimore, where the pair is meeting with another fabrication partner, whose 10-foot dining tables, constructed from Baltimore row house timbers, lie stacked on a dolly.<\/p>\n

Small metal plaques with H&H\u2019s logo\u2014which detail each piece\u2019s material, its source, and the fabrication partner that built it\u2014encapsulate the essence of the young company, which links commercial clients and highly skilled local artisans in furniture\u2019s equivalent of food\u2019s farm-to-table movement.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s old-yet-hip guidelines\u2014locally sourced, sustainable materials, local fabricators, durable and beautiful design, and close personal relationships with both clients and makers\u2014were inherited from Kukelhaus\u2019 and Young\u2019s grandfathers, for whom the company is named. Hugo Kukelhaus\u2019 and Hobart \u201cHoby\u201d Young were carpenter-architect-inventors who passed on the fruits of their skills, and the skills themselves, to their descendants.<\/p>\n

\"Fred<\/a>
Fred Kukelhaus (left) and Ben Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As students and would-be entrepreneurs who met at the Yale School of Management, Kukelhaus and Young became roommates through \u201chappenstance.\u201d After searching in vain for quality furniture at a price they could afford, they turned jointly to making their own, and the dream of H&H was born.<\/p>\n

In its first three years, the business has burgeoned. Their next job is twice as big as the current one, and the one after that\u2014refurnishing a law school dormitory\u2014is half again the size of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky in a lot of ways,\u201d Kukelhaus says. \u201cWe keep getting the next challenge that we can just about handle, and stretch ourselves and really kind of push forward, and then a new challenge will come up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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