Delancey Street Foundation - About Us - Our Enterprises

Handcrafted Furniture, Small Hardwood Gift Items, Ceramics, Plants and Glass, Iron Works
Delancey Street is gaining a reputation for its finely worked hand crafted products. For close to four decades Delancey Street has developed its own bark planter products, which we have wholesaled along with retail sales. We design and hand craft sand paintings, terrariums, ceramics, small hardwood gift items, ironworks, bark planters and a wide variety of furniture made in the Taos style. These are produced completely by Delancey Street residents and are sold by residents to both wholesale and retail markets throughout the country.

These handcraft training schools not only build on the artistic strengths of our residents but also teach necessary work ethics and production skills. Due to the high level of production, residents become efficient at meeting projections based off last year's sales, keeping detailed records and accurate inventories, maintaining quality control, ordering supplies and scheduling and making deliveries. They learn how to work under pressure, particularly during our Christmas, Valentine's and Mother's Day seasons.

Wood Items and Custom Furniture
The Small Handcraft Wood Department in New Mexico produces items such as cardholders and cutting boards and jewelry boxes made from hardwoods such as maple, red and white oak, sycamore, hackberry, black walnut, ash and hickory using characteristics such as hardness, grain patterns and color. They learn every facet of milling rough lumber through fine product finishing and sell hundreds of such items retail annually. Handcrafted wood items are also produced at the Los Angeles, CA, Brewster, New York and Greensboro, North Carolina facilities.

The Custom Furniture Department in New Mexico hand crafts cabinets, doors, dining room sets and armoires from the finest ponderosa and sugar pine, along with using other woods such as oak, maple and walnut. The custom handcraft nature of our furniture enables the customer to choose from a variety of stain and oil finishes and varnishes as topcoats. Delancey Street New Mexico has developed a line of Delancey Street furniture that consists of a dining room set (four chairs and a table) and a bedroom set (dresser, high boy, two night stands and a bed). Our designs, as well as our methods of construction, are classic, derived from Taos, Santa Fe and traditional Spanish Colonial styles. Our furniture has been purchased for the Santa Fe Council Chambers and some of the fine small hotels and inns around the area.