Category Archives: News
Greatest Commission Ever?
Irion Company fills a house with 90 of the finest pieces of American period furniture It was a once-in-a-lifetime scenario. A customer who had a passion for furniture, an enormous, empty house, and the desire to fill it with reproductions … Continue reading
A polished craft
Company hopes marketing can add another sheen to sales. A passion for craftsmanship has sustained Irion Co. Furniture Makers for 61 years. Now, the company’s owners have set out to make its reproduction of 18th-century furniture more profitable with a … Continue reading
CARVING OUT PROFITS, Fortune Small Business (November 2006)
Can a luxury-furniture maker boost earnings by launching a new line? By Brian O’Reilly It sounds great at first: Kendl Monn’s furniture business, Irion Co. Furniture Makers (furnituremakers.com), has a yearlong backlog for its flawless, handmade reproductions of Revolutionary War-era … Continue reading
The Diamond of Christiana , October 6, 2006 Lancaster New Era
by Jeanette Scott When Donald Harkins saw the writing desk, it was love at first sight. He would pine away for a year and a half before this treasure could grace his home. Certainly he could have gone to any … Continue reading
TEAM AT IRION FURNITURE MAKERS GOES TO BAT FOR CADE AND PHILS’ CHAIRMAN BILL GILES
Philadelphia, PA – When it comes to making museum-quality, traditional American furniture, Irion Furniture Makers of Christiana, Pennsylvania, is in a league of their own. How fitting the all-star studio volunteered to hand craft a one-of-a-kind baseball bat for Phillies … Continue reading
Masterpieces of American Furniture, Winter 2005 The Hunt
A new furniture collection rivals one commissioned 200 years ago, by Paige Howard When Kendl Monn, co-owner of Irion Furniture Makers in Christiana, received an order for a West Chester client’s dining room, he didn’t dream it would turn into … Continue reading
Masterpiece theater, Lancaster New Era November 10, 2005
Here’s your chance to see a collection of furniture that’s six years in the making By Mary Beth Schweigert New Era Staff Writer The Greatest Masterpieces in American furniture are scattered throughout the world’s finest museums and most prominent private … Continue reading
