To create inspiring wood furniture, Sawdust Bureau owner Bryan Cush demands high quality tools

Bryan Cush, owner of bespoke Melbourne furniture company Sawdust Bureau, can make a lot of things. Compromises aren’t one of them. The Belfast, Ireland-born graduate architect worked in Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Austria before setting up shop in Australia. He became disillusioned with commercial architecture while working for builders who emphasized cost savings over quality; in 2012, he decided to go it alone.  

After a few years of tinkering with potential designs in a collaborative Melbourne wool-store studio, Cush received a start-up business grant from the city of Melbourne in 2015. The money allowed them to buy machinery and a new workshop, and an opportunity to “step back and try to fine tune a vision for Sawdust Bureau,” Cush says. Read more...