Jonah Zuckerman started his studio in 1996 with a simple idea: build contemporary furniture with traditional techniques. City Joinery has grown from a one-person operation to a company of eleven people in a 6,000 square foot space.

Jonah grew up in suburban New York City.  While getting a Fine Arts degree at Brown in the 1980s, he studied furniture making at Rhode Island School of Design.  He went on to get a masters degree in architecture at Harvard and then went on a Fulbright to Nepal to study traditional wood joinery.  In the mix, he worked in cabinet shops, on construction sites, for architecture firms, large and small, and in a big Vermont furniture factory, where he came to appreciate large scale production.