The Ashley Collection.
Named for the river that bends past our workshop — a quiet study in oak, linen and light.
Explore the collectionDesigned for living.
Made to be kept.
Since 1987, from a workshop on a quiet Charleston street, two sisters have made furniture meant to be lived with — and left to the next generation. Not decorated. Inhabited.
The Ashley Sofa
A low, generous seat built on a kiln-dried oak frame and hand-tied springs, wrapped in washed Belgian linen. It softens as it ages, and it is meant to.
- Material
- Oak · Belgian linen
- Finishes
- Flax · Oat · Fog · Clay
- Dimensions
- 88"W · 38"D · 31"H
"We wanted a sofa you could fall asleep on and still be proud of." — Ivy Hale, designer
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Made by hand.
Made to last.
A single Ashley sofa passes through eleven hands and more than two hundred hours — joinery cut by hand, springs tied by hand, linen cut on the grain. We build slowly on purpose.
"We never set out to make a lot of furniture. We set out to make furniture worth keeping."
Florence trained as a cabinetmaker; Ivy, in textiles and interiors. In 1987 they took a lease on a Charleston carriage house and a single conviction — that a well-made piece of furniture is a quiet act of optimism about the future. Nearly four decades on, little has changed but the size of the workshop.
Read our storyA house is furnished in an afternoon.
A home is furnished over a lifetime.
Rooms that rest you.
The Magnolia bed in white oak, dressed in stone-washed linen. Low, calm, and built to be the last thing you notice and the first thing you feel.
Every room, considered.
Chosen to age well.
Notes on living well.
The quiet luxury of patina
Why the pieces we love most are the ones that show their years.
How to choose a sofa that lasts thirty years
Frame, fill, and fabric — what actually matters, from the people who build them.
A Charleston single house, slowly furnished
One family's decade of living with — and adding to — a room.