Baker Furniture

Founded in 1890 in Allegan, Michigan, Baker Furniture is the longest-continuously-operating American luxury furniture house. For more than 130 years, Baker has held the same position in the residential furniture category that Hermès holds in luggage and Steinway holds in pianos: the benchmark by which every other American luxury maker is measured. Baker is the original to-the-trade brand — its showrooms in High Point, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston serve interior designers, architects, and luxury homeowners specifying complete residential furnishing programs. Every Baker piece is hand-finished in the company's Michigan and North Carolina workshops, with case-good construction standards (kiln-dried hardwood frames, hand-rubbed catalyzed lacquer finishes, mortise-and-tenon joinery, hand-tied eight-way coil seating) that exceed every mass-market and most premium-market competitors.

The Designer-Collaboration Model

What distinguishes Baker from every other American luxury house is the designer-collaboration model. Rather than carrying a single in-house design language, Baker partners with the world's most celebrated interior designers and architects, who each design a capsule collection under the Baker or McGuire labels. The current roster reads as a who's-who of contemporary American and international design: Barbara Barry, Thomas Pheasant, Jean-Louis Deniot, Jacques Garcia, Suzanne Kasler, Bill Sofield, Bill Bensley, Laura Kirar, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, Kara Mann, Susan Ferrier, Marmol Radziner, Steven Volpe, Nicole Hollis, Paola Navone, and Jonathan Browning. Each designer's collection carries that designer's signature — Barbara Barry's restrained minimalism in pale woods and woven rattan, Thomas Pheasant's neoclassical proportions in blackened oak and white plaster, Jacques Garcia's opulent French historicism in deep tones and gilded detail, Susan Ferrier's modern American glamour in onyx and bronze — yet all are built to the same Baker craft standard.

The Baker Collection Architecture

Baker organizes its catalog program around several anchor lines. The Baker Luxe Collection is the flagship, with seasonal Spring and Fall introductions that bring 30-60 new pieces each season across multiple designer collaborations — Luxe is the right catalog to request when you want to see what's new and where Baker is moving design-wise. The Baker Reserve Collection is the ultra-premium curation, with the most material- and labor-intensive pieces in the Baker line — polished onyx accent tables, hand-carved giltwood mirrors, and showcase casegoods that anchor grand residential rooms. The Baker Look Book is the brand-wide showcase that presents the full Baker design language in editorial photography — the right starting point for new Baker clients who want to understand the brand's positioning before drilling into individual designer collections.

Individual Designer Collections

Each major designer collaboration has its own caption sheet — a product-level brochure that shows every piece in the current collection with finish options, dimensions, and the designer's intent for the piece. The Susan Ferrier Collection for Spring 2025 captures the modern American glamour Ferrier has built her reputation on, with polished honey onyx accent tables, bronze-and-blackened-oak casegoods, and sculptural upholstery in muted earth tones. The Barbara Barry Collection for Fall 2024 (the Baker capsule, with a sibling line for McGuire) extends Barry's decades-long Baker partnership into honey onyx accent tables and bronze-detailed casegoods that feel both ancient and contemporary. The Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Collection Universelle for Fall 2025 is the designer's first major Baker capsule in years, drawing inspiration from French modernism, African craftsmanship, and Italian post-war design across a tightly edited set of side tables, dining pieces, and accent casegoods finished in Obsidian with burnished gold leaf accents.

Baker and McGuire

McGuire Furniture is Baker's sister brand and the leading American maker of rattan, woven cane, and natural-material furniture. Founded in San Francisco in 1948 and acquired by Baker Interiors Group in the 1980s, McGuire shares Baker's craft standards and to-the-trade distribution model. The Barbara Barry for McGuire collaboration sits alongside the Baker Barbara Barry collection — where the Baker pieces are typically in walnut and onyx, the McGuire pieces translate the same design intent into rattan, woven square mesh cane, white oak, and bronze. Many luxury residential projects specify both Baker and McGuire in the same room — the visual contrast between Baker's polished casegoods and McGuire's natural-material lounge pieces is one of the defining moves of contemporary American luxury interiors.

Heritage Designer Collections

Baker also continues to produce and re-release pieces from its historical archive — the Stately Homes Collection (licensed reproductions of important pieces from English country estates), the Thomas Pheasant Collection (introduced in the early 2000s and continuously expanded), the Bill Sofield Collection (modernist Hollywood Regency), the Jean-Louis Deniot Collection (French neoclassical with brutalist tension), the Jacques Garcia Collection (opulent French historicism), and the Laura Kirar, Marmol Radziner, Kara Mann, Nicole Hollis, and Steven Volpe capsules. These collections rotate in and out of seasonal introduction cycles but remain available for trade specification, which is why Baker's caption-sheet library covers a broader set of collections than the current seasonal brochures alone would suggest.

Free Baker Furniture Catalogs by Mail

Baker brochures and caption sheets listed here are mailed free to homeowners, interior designers, and architects. The Look Book and the seasonal Luxe introductions are the right starting points for clients new to Baker. The individual designer caption sheets are the specification-grade reference documents for trade professionals — every piece is shown with the model number (BAA-series for Baker, MCA-series for McGuire), the standard finish, the finish-program tier for upgrades, and the designer's written intent. Baker is the right catalog to request when a project demands the deepest possible American luxury furniture platform — designer-collaboration breadth, four-tier finish customization, and 130+ years of continuous American manufacturing in the same Michigan workshops where the first Baker pieces were built in 1890.