BERLIN– Generations of skill and technique go into each unique piece of furniture at Hunt and Lane.
Partners Taber Bartoshesky and Jon Lane personally import all of their inventory from Bali, Indonesia.
“I completely fell in love with the culture and the furniture,” Lane said. “We went there last year, and when we got back we both had the same idea. It made it a little bit more feasible to put our funds together, so we just planned a trip and made it happen.”
After a 30-hour plane ride and an 18-hour drive, the pair met with owners from Java furniture and filled up a 20-foot shipping container.
“It’s all handmade in tiny family-owned factories,” Lane said. “Each factory makes something different. The one that makes Java benches doesn’t make tables, and the ones that make tables don’t make mirrors.”
Lane, who works part-time with Bartoshesky at Ocean City restaurant Hooked, said filling up the enormous containers is an adventure.
“We both work in the restaurant business, so it makes it easy to take a winter off, so we were kind of up for the adventure,” he said. “Hopefully next year we’ll go back and fill up a couple of 40-footers.”
In two-and-a-half months the company has already sold out half of their inventory. Much of their remaining furniture can be found on their website, created by Alex Fisher in exchange for a few pieces of furniture.
“All of our stuff is handmade,” Lane said. “There are no power tools involved. All of this is hand-carved. All the wood is old, reclaimed teak off of old houses and barns. Whenever we would go to a factory there would always be a huge pile of old wood that would have to be planed down to make this stuff.
“All the wood has lots of character, plus teak is just a wood you can’t really find around here unless you’re importing it,” Lane continued. “It’s really heavy-duty dense wood.”
Inside a small showroom, an oversized bench with a handmade marble chess set, a table showing off a sprawling, natural formation of wood and several side tables and drawers are arranged sparingly. The company keeps a few pieces in consignment shops, and more in a storage facility.
“I hope that in the future we’ll have a lot of stuff sold before we even get it back here,” he said. “We’ve had a great response so far. We’ve been selling quite a few pieces on a regular basis, and we’re hoping to open a location here within the next couple years. There’s the potential to build another warehouse on this property.”
Hunt and Lane is located inside Sun Signs Inc. on 8621 Stephen Decatur Hwy. in Berlin.
For more information call 443-614-3174 or 443-614-3216, or visit www.huntandlane.com.
Partners Taber Bartoshesky and Jon Lane personally import all of their inventory from Bali, Indonesia.
“I completely fell in love with the culture and the furniture,” Lane said. “We went there last year, and when we got back we both had the same idea. It made it a little bit more feasible to put our funds together, so we just planned a trip and made it happen.”
After a 30-hour plane ride and an 18-hour drive, the pair met with owners from Java furniture and filled up a 20-foot shipping container.
“It’s all handmade in tiny family-owned factories,” Lane said. “Each factory makes something different. The one that makes Java benches doesn’t make tables, and the ones that make tables don’t make mirrors.”
Lane, who works part-time with Bartoshesky at Ocean City restaurant Hooked, said filling up the enormous containers is an adventure.
“We both work in the restaurant business, so it makes it easy to take a winter off, so we were kind of up for the adventure,” he said. “Hopefully next year we’ll go back and fill up a couple of 40-footers.”
In two-and-a-half months the company has already sold out half of their inventory. Much of their remaining furniture can be found on their website, created by Alex Fisher in exchange for a few pieces of furniture.
“All of our stuff is handmade,” Lane said. “There are no power tools involved. All of this is hand-carved. All the wood is old, reclaimed teak off of old houses and barns. Whenever we would go to a factory there would always be a huge pile of old wood that would have to be planed down to make this stuff.
“All the wood has lots of character, plus teak is just a wood you can’t really find around here unless you’re importing it,” Lane continued. “It’s really heavy-duty dense wood.”
Inside a small showroom, an oversized bench with a handmade marble chess set, a table showing off a sprawling, natural formation of wood and several side tables and drawers are arranged sparingly. The company keeps a few pieces in consignment shops, and more in a storage facility.
“I hope that in the future we’ll have a lot of stuff sold before we even get it back here,” he said. “We’ve had a great response so far. We’ve been selling quite a few pieces on a regular basis, and we’re hoping to open a location here within the next couple years. There’s the potential to build another warehouse on this property.”
Hunt and Lane is located inside Sun Signs Inc. on 8621 Stephen Decatur Hwy. in Berlin.
For more information call 443-614-3174 or 443-614-3216, or visit www.huntandlane.com.