Chee Er Furniture Co. for Wasaa Architects

Chee Er Furniture is a carpentry workshop skilled in traditional Shanghainese carpentry. It opened in 1978 and had handcrafted countless solid furniture pieces over the years.

Due to shifting demand for bespoke carpentry and the pandemic, Chee Er Furniture closed its doors for retirement in 2021. This series of images documents the last few weeks of the workshop, and was turned into a book as a gift for Master Carpenter Wu.