Mennonite Furniture Studios American Heirloom Furniture - Staff

Fred Zimmerman - Company Founder

With a strong background in, and love for, traditional furniture-making, Fred moved to Delaware in 1984 and created a modest furniture workshop with the aim of building high quality hardwood tables, chairs, and cabinets, using legacy carpentry techniques.

As our list of clients steadily grew, each of Fred's sons joined the business, and our now substantial workshop currently employs 8 dedicated furniture craftsmen. He now enjoys working with our clients and is their clear favorite for helpfulness and all-round knowledge of heirloom quality hardwood furniture and its' construction and finishing.

Fred (left) & Ethan (right) Zimmerman

Ethan Zimmerman - Furniture Production Mgr.

Ethan is our perfectionist who manages all aspects of furniture production. An avid reader, and family man, Ethan has enjoyed the furniture workshop since being a toddler, literally growing up with it.

Ethan has always had a love of fine hardwood furniture and fine furniture building. Growing up in the business, he is naturally an accomplished craftsman himself, with an intimate understanding of traditional hardwood furniture construction.

Ethan enthusiastically expresses his joy in seeing our caring furniture craftsmen form beautiful and lasting hardwood heirloom pieces. Everything has to be exactly 100% right to please his experienced eye, so You can be confident that Your furniture will be absolutely perfect in every way.

Scott Miller - Hardwood Furniture Customer Care & Support

Scott is a History buff, a linguist, and a long time member of our workshop. His knowledge and expertise of furniture history is particularly appreciated by those special clients who wish to build an authentic legacy furniture collection.

Scott loves helping clients find just the right furniture piece, and he is especially adept at designing fine custom pieces from even the roughest sketch. If you need help finding or custom-building the perfect piece for your home, just ask for Scott. We are confident that he can help you - e-mail Scott.

Mennonite Furniture Studios American Heirloom Furniture - Hardwood Table Craftsman

Levi Yoder - Master Table Craftsman

Levi helps with production scheduling, but his specialty is really in building finely crafted tables, especially custom pieces. He particularly enjoys working for those very particular clients who share his love of the beauty of natural solid wood and fine hardwood grain.

Levi is most happy when surrounded by beautiful wooden furniture pieces, and his home overflows with his own highly interesting collection. You can rely on Levi to bring the full beauty of the most carefully selected hardwood grains into your home.

Mennonite Furniture Studios American Heirloom Furniture - Hardwood Chair Craftsmen

Henry Yoder - Master Chair Craftsman

Henry is blessed with the rare ability of being able fit the most complicated compound angles of windsor chairs together with ease. He particularly enjoys the challenge of constructing custom chairs or the occasional custom barstool.

One of Henry's favorite pastimes is hand-drawing construction plans for old fashioned barns.

Leroy Yoder - Chair Craftsman

Leroy enjoys a particular patience and care for careful assembly of our most intricately fitted chair parts.

You can rest assured that every beautiful piece that Leroy builds will look exactly right, and also be durable enough to last for generations.

John Miller - Chair Craftsman

John specializes in creating our most comfortably dished chair seats out of carefully selected and beautifully grained pieces of hardwood.

John's patient attention to detail is easily appreciated when viewing his perfectly drilled compound angles for each spindle and leg, and his finely sanded components brought to ideal final smoothness.

Every chair built by this team of dedicated craftsmen is an expression of faith and a furniture masterpiece. Like all of our other clients, we are
confident that You will be absolutely happy with every aspect of Your chairs produced by Henry, Leroy and John.

Mennonite Furniture Studios American Heirloom Furniture - Furniture Finishing Craftsman

William Byler - Furniture Finishing Craftsman

William transforms every one of our perfectly assembled hardwood furniture pieces into beautifully finished works of furniture art. Every craftsman in our workshop knows that when they hand each of their caringly built pieces over to William, they are placing them in expert hands.

William's contribution is the final one of several steps required to produce the most beautiful and durable furniture pieces that we can put before You, Your family and Your friends.

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Mennonite Furniture Studios American Heirloom Furniture - Furniture Packaging & Delivery Specialist

Winfred Zimmerman - Furniture Packaging & Delivery Specialist

Winfred is a skilled craftsman who builds some of our finest custom furniture pieces. He is also personally responsible for managing the most protective packaging and final delivery of our finished Heirloom pieces to each of our clients' homes.

Thanks to Winfred, You can be sure that Your furniture will arrive at Your home in the same perfect condition that it left our workshop.

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