Sitting. Writing. Setting the table. Eating together. Every object has a verb attached to it — a daily gesture that quietly shapes how you live. We design furniture for those gestures.
Born in Italy. Bred in Brooklyn.
Miduny's furniture is designed in Brooklyn, built by master artisans in Italy, and engineered with a proprietary joinery system that ships flat and assembles in minutes.
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Our Story
Our story began when Italian architect Alessandro Preda moved to Brooklyn and rented a small studio to experiment with wood, joints, and proportion. With handheld tools, he built his first table.It wasn't right.
So he built another. And another.
Encouraged by his early prototypes, Ale built his own CNC router from open-source plans. He began combining advanced digital fabrication with the hand-finishing techniques he had grown up watching in the workshops of Brescia.
The result was a proprietary joinery system — precision-cut joints that hold without glue, assemble in minutes, and can be taken apart and rebuilt every time you move.
That first table became the MiMi — and the MiMi became a collection. Today, every piece is designed and prototyped at our Brooklyn workshop, then hand-built by master artisans in Italy in small batches. Each one carries a unique serial number, hand-stamped on the underside.
Ale trained as an architect at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and practiced for six years at Deborah Berke Partners in New York. He brings an architect's rigor to every dimension, material, and finish — because furniture, like buildings, is something you live inside.
Brescia, Italy
Alessandro grew up in Brescia, in the foothills of the Italian Alps, where craft is not an industry — it is the culture. The iconic Riva wooden motorboats are built twenty minutes away in Sarnico. Flos, maker of the Castiglioni Arco Lamp, is headquartered next door in Bovezzo.
Miduny's manufacturing partners are part of this same ecosystem — family workshops where precision engineering and handwork have coexisted for generations. The design sensibility is not imported. It is inherited.
The Artisans
Our manufacturing partners are family-owned workshops where three generations work under one roof. The youngest runs the CNC machines. The oldest knows, by touch, when the grain demands a hand finish. Between them is a body of knowledge that no manual could contain.
Each piece passes through dozens of hands before it leaves the workshop — cut, shaped, sanded, assembled, finished, inspected, disassembled, and packed. The process takes no fewer than 25 steps.
We produce in small batches — not as a marketing gesture, but because the work demands it. Every surface is hand-sanded. Every joint is test-fitted. Every serial number is stamped by the same person who inspected the finished piece.
The care is visible. It is meant to be.
The joinery
We believe objects should be long-lasting, deepening their character with use. But people move frequently. Cities demand compact living. Life changes shape.
Our answer is a proprietary system of precision wood joinery that resolves this contradiction — furniture that is built to last generations, yet designed to travel with you whenever you go.
The joints hold without glue—they are pressure fitted and two bolts are added for safety. The pieces can be assembled and disassembled as many times as life demands — without loosening, without degrading. Your next apartment gets the same table, with the same precision, as the first.
Even the packaging is considered. Each piece can be assembled inside its box, so the surfaces stay protected until the table is standing on its own legs. The boxes are double-wall corrugated cardboard, fully recyclable.
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Design Principles
Sustainability
Every material is FSC-certified and chosen for longevity, not trend. Birch plywood, hardwood veneer, food-safe maple — renewable, dimensionally stable, and engineered to reduce waste.
Our joinery system means every piece ships flat in a custom box via standard ground, cutting the carbon footprint of white-glove freight.
Flexibility
Cities change. Apartments change. The way you work changes. We design furniture that adapts — a desk that becomes a dining table by evening, a stool that becomes a side table when guests leave.
Every MiMi piece can be disassembled and reassembled without degradation, so your furniture moves when you do.
Modularity
The MiMi's length is precisely twice its width. Two tables form a square. Three form a conference run. The legs are designed so that when two tables sit side by side, adjacent legs merge into one — reducing visual clutter and creating a seamless surface.
From single desk to L-shape to boardroom: one system, infinite configurations.
Knowledge
Every product is designed and prototyped at our Brooklyn workshop, then produced by multigenerational artisan workshops in Italy. The process combines digital precision — CNC routing, parametric modeling — with hand-finishing techniques passed down through decades of practice.
No shortcut replicates what happens when a master craftsman runs a hand across a surface and knows, by touch, that it's right.
Uniqueness
Each piece is built and finished by hand. A unique serial number is hand-stamped on the underside and recorded on a signed certificate of authenticity.
Your table is not like any other table.
The Crab's Claw
Among Chuang-tzu’s many skills, he was an expert draftsman. The king asked him to draw a crab. Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants. Five years later the drawing was still not begun. “I need another five years,” said Chuang-tzu. The king granted them. At the end of these ten years, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant, with a single stroke, he drew a crab, the most perfect crab ever seen.
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Our logo is a crab's claw — a reminder to be patient and thoughtful in the conception, authoritative and decisive in the execution. Every piece we make aspires to this standard.
EACH PIECE IS SIGNED, SERIAL-NUMBERED, AND STAMPED WITH THE CLAW.