Aventine Hill Designs is Daniel and Laura — a maker and a designer working from our shop in Hooksett, New Hampshire.
Daniel is a disabled veteran who came back to wood after twelve years in the military, pairing hand tools inherited from his grandfather and great-grandfather with precision CNC milling. Laura is a designer whose spaces favor calming simplicity with an ode to times since passed; her eye keeps every piece quiet, balanced, and right. Aventine Hill Designs is a disabled veteran-owned shop in Hooksett, New Hampshire.
How we work
Every piece begins as a single blank of solid hardwood. We mill the entire form from that one piece — the body, the wells, the fit — so there are no joints or seams to interrupt the grain or loosen with the seasons. We let the wood speak for itself, and add to a piece only when it adds to its beauty. Then the machines stop and the hand work begins: sanding through the grits until the surface feels less like a finish and more like a property of the wood itself.
We make card boxes and game-table pieces this way, and we take commissions for the things we haven’t made yet.