Product Design

Melbourne, Australia

Dowel Jones

Anything but Ordinary. Dowel Jones was founded by Adam Lynch and Dale Hardiman in 2014 after graduating from university together. Over the past 7 years, founders Adam Lynch and Dale Hardiman have grown the company from a small furniture studio helping to furnish local cafes, to producing furniture, lighting and accessories now found in homes and interiors all across the world. In the past 7 years, Dowel Jones have won numerous awards for pieces both nationally and internationally. Although they appear to be a furniture and lighting company, Dowel Jones also works on self-initiated pieces that explore concepts further in depth (such as a tattooed cabinet called Venena Arca and National Gallery of Victoria acquired bench Never Grow Up), and also regularly organise events to support the local community of designers in Australia. Dowel Jones work’s with a large network of Australian and international manufacturers to produce products as high quality as possible. Where possible, they produce within Australia in local areas to our factory in Geelong: their steel fabrication is in Melbourne, and the timber factory and powder coating takes place around the corner from their Geelong factory. In 2018 Dowel Jones began collaborating with designers outside the company to provide new visions on what Dowel Jones pieces could be, launching the Sister Collection with New York based 3D artist Tom Hancocks. In 2021, they launched our second international collaboration the Volta Collection with Argentinian studio RIES. In 2018 Dowel Jones furthered the availabilities of Dowel Jones products globally by partnering with well respected family-owned American manufacturer Grand Rapids Chair Company. This allows for select products to be available in the US while being locally made. Dowel Jones are designers first and foremost, so we are always seeking new collaborations across the globe to further what Dowel Jones is.