About Transom

Sofas, tables and beds sized for real rooms and real doorways.

Transom is a design studio and a showroom in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We make thirty pieces for four rooms, in six fabrics and three woods, and we write down every measurement you need before one of them reaches your door.

Showroom

Sit on every sofa in Grand Rapids

Our showroom on Ionia Avenue has every sofa and chair in every fabric, the three woods side by side and a wall of swatches. Sit for as long as you like, or book an hour with a designer, free, to plan a room from your measurements and a few photos.

Lowell Sofa in Ivory Bouclé, from the front

Upholstery

Upholstered in North Carolina

Our sofas, chairs, ottoman, bed bench and the Linden bed are upholstered by a partner workshop in Hickory, North Carolina, from domestic and imported materials. Every frame is kiln-dried hardwood with sinuous springs and fiber-wrapped foam, and the workshop sews the velvet and leather pieces to order, which is why they take 7–9 weeks.

Wood

Solid oak, walnut and black-stained ash

Our tables, beds and storage are made by partner factories abroad, so their labels say Imported. We choose the woods: solid white oak and solid American walnut with a matte oil, and ash stained black so the grain still shows. Before a run ships, we check pieces from it against our drawings and our wood samples.

01

Measured before you order

Every product page lists the width, depth and height, the seat and the diagonal depth, and the size of every box it ships in.

02

Fabrics you can touch first

Up to five swatches free per order, and every fabric in the showroom, so you choose it in your own light.

03

Delivery you choose

To your door or lobby for $99, or carried in and assembled for $199: one fee per order, however many pieces.

2019

Studio opened in Grand Rapids

30

Pieces for four rooms

6

Fabrics in four families

10

Years of warranty on sofa and bed frames

The Lowell living room against a deep green wall

“We would rather you measure twice and keep the sofa for ten years than order fast and send it back.”
Nora Lindqvist · head of design

Showroom

Sit on it in Grand Rapids

Every sofa in every fabric, the three woods and the whole swatch wall under one roof. Book an hour with a designer, free, in the showroom or on a video call.