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Fernando Chavez Canchola has actually constructed custom-made furnishings and carried out high-end upholstery jobs in his
Fort Worth workshop for over a decade for area customers, including lots of interior designers, and some out of state. He is following in the steps of his father, who began making pieces in California in 1978.
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FWR: Tell me about your company, and what you do.
Fernando Chavez Canchola: It's just me and (my dad). We build all the frames and (do) upholstery. He's been doing this given that 1978, beginning in California. We came out here (to
Fort Worth) and have been doing it ever since.
It's a trade that actually was practical to find out. I'm really fortunate that I was sort of born into this. That's why I take a little bit more pride in whatever that I'm making.
FWR: Is this something you saw yourself doing?
My daddy never ever actually let me deal with power tools. I've kind of always comprehended how to make chairs and how to do all that.
FWR: Walk me through your procedure. How do you develop your pieces?
Canchola: Everything's made to order. If they desire a midcentury sofa, or they desire to reupholster antiques, they'll send me a picture and I'll customize it to the client's depth-- how deep do they want it? Sometimes sofas or chairs are truly low; I'll make it a little bit higher to compensate for the older client who does not desire to sit really, truly low in these modern styles.
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FWR: Is there a specific style you specialize or choose in?
Canchola: My father's been doing it for a long period of time, so I've been fortunate to do a lot of different designs. Whatever's repeated throughout the years. There's not truly much new things, brand-new things.
It's just, I believe, how well is it made and the quality of the things. That's the things that you wish to continue for generations. You could buy something new, but it's not going to be made to this scale of quality.
FWR: Nowadays, individuals just purchase their furniture online or in a store. Do you still believe there's a huge demand for customized pieces?
Canchola: In the '70s and '80s, that's how furnishings was made. They would modify styles from older stuff to make brand-new things. There were actual artisans that would do all these pieces. And my daddy's been doing it for so long that it's now a really high-end trade. So it takes a long time to find out how to do all of it.
Because he began the business, he type of knew how to do everything, and as I was maturing, I found out how to do every procedure, from developing to upholstering to learning how to draft, how to draw a chair. It's just been an accumulation over the years of just having the opportunity to keep structure things. People keep getting described us, and it's been a joy to have someone like your quality of work.
FWR: What would you say is the biggest misconception about your craft?
Canchola: People generally think I'm like a cabinetmaker or something. Due to the fact that it is various. You could be a carpenter and you might develop houses. Or, you could be a carpenter and do woodturning.
I think of my dad as like a master craftsman. He might wood turn, he could develop furnishings, he can upholster, he knows how to paint. It's kind of the accumulation of everything.
I will state just an artisan-- I've been fortunate enough to be born into this. I simply learned bits and pieces along the method to help me construct pieces and how to never truly have to bring down my quality of work.
Sandra Sadek is a Report for America corps member, covering growth for the
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