Furniture for Considered Living
Furniture designer Sun at Six has created a serene, tactile gallery space in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, which provides a stage for its work to be experienced without distraction.
In a quiet carriage house in Brooklyn, Sun at Six invites visitors into a world shaped by wood, light and human connection. The family-run furniture design studio has built its reputation on pieces that move beyond utility, seeking instead to shape how people feel in a space and with one another. Founded in 2017, the studio’s philosophy is grounded in a lineage of woodworking that carries both craft and memory across generations.
“At the beginning, our vision was humble, just a few pieces for a specific atmosphere we wanted to create,” says co-founder Antares Yee. “From the start, we believed furniture could evoke emotions and guide how people interact.” Over time, that vision evolved, but the core belief remained: that spaces act as a means to facilitate feeling and connection.
This sensitivity extends to the Prospect Heights gallery the studio opened last year. Tucked behind an unassuming facade, it offers a pause from the city’s rhythm; it’s quiet, tactile and deeply personal. Conceived to feel like a private home, the gallery provides a stage for Sun at Six’s work to be experienced without distraction, its pieces revealing themselves through touch, scale and shifting light.
Recent releases build on this approach while exploring new expressions of form and colour. The Wave chair capsule, for example, reimagines a much-loved profile through the C/Array series, two limited-edition variations whose multi-coloured upholstery shifts the chair’s presence from understated to vibrant. A new wood with a sienna finish expands the chair’s language while honouring the studio’s commitment to solid, sustainably sourced white ash. Each piece is assembled with traditional joinery – without nails or screws – allowing the timber to breathe with the seasons.
Behind every decision lies inherited knowledge. “Good proportions define a piece,” Yee notes. “Comfort, durability and practicality come first, we make furniture to be used for a long time, not just to be looked at.” That ethos threads through the studio’s process, from the measured patience of its joinery to the way new work converses with the old.
For Sun at Six, furniture is made to anchor moments. “We hope people feel they’ve brought home something with a story, a forever building block that will age with them and collect their lives over time,” Yee says. It is in these small rituals – where proportion, placement and material invite people closer – that design transcends mere aesthetics or physicality and begins to nurture connection.
