About Us

We are Emily & Dave. Together we are ByDave.

We are British born and have lived in the wonderful city of Melbourne for over a decade. Having prior careers in Interior Design across London and Melbourne our influences reach into British and Australian design across the Architecture, Interior Design & Furniture design disciplines.

We co-founded ByDave from a desire to apply our design background to produce high quality, locally made furniture and speciality timber work with a design-lead sensibility.

We believe in producing pieces that are enduring. We respect the natural materials we work with and aim to elevate them through considered design and heirloom making practices.

We undertake this through our Processes, a respect to Low Volume manufacturing and through fabricating using Heirloom Practices.

ByDave, sketch, lathe, illustration, handmade

 

Our processes

ByDave, local making, small business, handmade, timber furniture

Within our small workshop footprint we make use of both machinery and hand tools to fabricate our products. Our approach is to use the best method available to us, be it a table saw or hand chisel. We also hand finish all of our pieces to ensure they are refined to the touch.

 

Low Volume

Low volume making, custom furniture, bespoke furniture

We consciously keep things small and local. We maintain a small workshop footprint and operate at small volumes. We do this to ensure we fabricate to a quality we are proud of.

Heirloom Practices

heirloom timber furniture, American oak, contemporary furniture

We fabricate our products using traditional furniture making practices. We do this to ensure our products are heirloom in quality. From this knowledge we apply our design-lead focus to fabricate thoughtful and enduring pieces of design.