Form is never fixed.
Forma began as a habit: finding well-made furniture in estates, barns and back rooms across Middle Tennessee and giving it a second life. Several hundred pieces later it is a studio. Kate Swanson finds, repairs and photographs every object herself.
We restore to presence, not to new. Original finishes stay when they can. Repairs are structural first and cosmetic second. Every listing says plainly what was done and what was left alone.
The name is the Latin for shape, structure and essence. The scribbled R in the wordmark is the piece as we found it. The solid letters are what it becomes.
Selling to Forma
We buy outright. Solid wood case goods, mid-century and earlier, pairs of anything, and designer pieces with a maker's mark. Send photographs, rough dimensions and where the piece is. We answer within two days and pick up ourselves across Middle Tennessee.
Pickup and Delivery
Pickup in West Nashville by appointment. Delivery across Middle Tennessee for a fee. Freight quotes anywhere in the continental United States on request.
Freight is quoted per piece. A sideboard to the Northeast or West Coast has typically run a few hundred dollars by blanket-wrap carrier and takes two to four weeks. We wrap, document and hand off; the carrier brings it inside.
The Weekly Letter
One email a week, on Thursday. What arrived, what sold and for how much, and a line or two on what we are working on. Nothing else, ever.