Sound Designs

08/23/2026

It wasn’t supposed to be this color.

The customer wanted elm with a clear finish. Light-medium brown, simple, elegant. Nothing wrong with that.

Except the floor was already light.

So we put vintage cherry on the board as a wildcard — one of seven samples we presented. Didn’t think it stood a chance.

Then we saw it against the dark blue cabinets. And the classical edge profile.

Moral of the story: we will keep offering wildcards.

08/18/2026

Pratt Oval Dining Table

Solid ash, 96 x 42, three sculptural pedestals.

Simple and elegant design. Named after the Pratt Oval in Glen Cove, where our shop sits.

Now set up at , from our collaboration with Maiia Vilhelmsons

08/15/2026

More pics from our collab with Maiia Vilhelmsons for the Summer Table Holiday House in Bridgehampton.

Maiia Vilhelmsons is a talented interior designer who reached out to us with a clear vision for this project.
She brought together a unique blend of contemporary and classical elements to create a Summer Table that is truly memorable.

This was a great collaboration and Sound Designs is honored to support the charitable work of Holiday House.

08/15/2026

On Independence Day weekend, a designer I had never met sent me a sketch.

Maiia Vilhelmsons Maiia Vilhelmsons runs a New York design studio. She had a space at , the designer show house in Bridgehampton, and needed a local shop to build an oval table on three rounded pedestals.

I saw the drawing for the room and knew right away we wanted in.

Then I looked at the pedestals. Three of them, sculpted. We had never built anything like them.

As luck would have it, the racetrack oval is close to our Pratt Oval design. So we had a head start. We dove in and finished design and fabrication in a few short weeks to make the opening.

Iris Dankner Iris Dankner started Holiday House in 2008. She is a breast cancer survivor. This year’s edition is called The Summer Table.

Fifteen designers each build a table or a vignette, and the proceeds go to breast cancer research.

The table is currently available for sale at Holiday House 🏠.

Special thanks to : Maiia Vilhelmsons for making this happen, Joel Landstein for serving as lead fabricator Sound Designs and Isaac Cruz for assisting with the delivery and installation.

08/05/2026

Nice!

He’s making a splash.

08/04/2026

Whales are so back!

08/01/2026

Delivered- large elm table with a classic stain and edge profile. New Hyde Park, NY.

07/31/2026

Special build in progress. Our Pratt Oval dining table is nearly complete. Next week we will apply final coats of Odie's Oil and wood butter and they will be good to go!

This table has three rounded pedestals.

Maiia Vilhelmsons

07/30/2026

What’s in a logo?

People ask us all the time. Why Sound Designs?

Easy. We’re named for Long Island Sound. The water between our North Shore and Connecticut.

Though there are really two Sounds in that name. I learned this trade out in Seattle, on Puget Sound, before I came home.

I always wanted a mark that tied the land to the sea. My kids came up with the whale tail with wood grain. We sketched it out and the rest is history.

Here’s the part I love. The whales are actually coming back. Humpbacks turned up in the western Sound in 2015 for the first time in about forty years. The bunker returned, the water got cleaner, and the whales followed.

Feels right for a shop built on second chances.

Have a woodyful 🪵 day!

07/24/2026

The perfect table for a kitchen doesn’t come off a shelf. You have to find it.

A kitchen is the center of a home. And for a room like that, the first idea isn’t always the right one. You have to dig.

So we played. Clear oil. Dark oil. Bourbon. Espresso. Seven samples, side by side, on real wood.

Then the wildcard: vintage cherry.

And there it was. You feel it in your gut when it’s right.

That’s what custom really means. Not picking from limited options. Exploring until you land on the thing you’ll never want to let go of.

Top reveal next week. 🪵

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