FOR A 72-HOUR TURNAROUND

JUSTIN AUGUSTE GUEREUX, Studio Guereux; studioguereux.com

when Abby Bangser needed someone to build spare raw-birch display tables for her design fair, Object & Thing, she and her collaborator, interior designer Rafael de Cardenas, turned to Justin Guereux, who has a background in art direction in addition to fabrication. Guereux was remarkably fast and can turn some projects around in just 72 hours. (“I’ve worked with other woodworkers who have taken more than a year for bookshelves,” Bangser says.) While Guereux’s clients skew high-end and commercial (he’s created a pop-up room for the Brooklyn Museum’s store and wall paneling for Mansur Gavriel’s Soho store), his studio also does custom private commissions. Pro clients, like de Cardenas and Bangser, will come with specs fully mapped out, but for a client who doesn’t know exactly what style of material they’re going for, Guereux will make house calls to see their apartment and talk through the process. A stand-alone chair starts at about $1,000.