Restoration Hardware Vintage Furniture Factory Cart
A Coffee Table Fit for Daniel Plainview
If you appreciate vintage over modern, then you’re likely to take a look at the Vintage Furniture Factory Cart, sold by Restoration Hardware, and immediately want to build an entire room around it. Personally, I’ll take restored vintage over modern (though I prefer a nice mix), but this piece is entirely too unique not to talk about (despite Gear Patrol not owning one… yet).
The early American 1900s industrial design is unmistakable and has an air of “There Will Be Blood” about it, minus Daniel-Day Lewis sitting in your living room clamoring on about drinking your milkshake.
Made of North American solid white oak and original cast iron parts (restored), each cart is unique (read: no two the same). Each cart has been painstaking restored by Michael Vermillion’s piece by piece in Northern California. I thought it worth quoting Vermillion’s philosophy of design, as it’s one I think applicable to any and all products I’d consider purchasing.
Make products that are honest. Finely crafted. Timeless in their design. And all about quality.
Well said Mr. Vermillion.
Cost: $910
Unless I’ve got a major affinity for Indiana Jones’ runaway mine train scene, that’s that ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. No offense.
I have to question anyone who hasn’t dreamed of reenacting Short Round’s escape from the Thuggee Cult via mine car. “No brakes!”
I’d agree with dirt on this. Definitely not my steez, though Eric you are my boy.
None taken. Fair enough observation, we’re all about opinions here. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I suppose I’ve got a thing for cast iron, must be the Tennessee in me.
I’m with Eric on this one. I like restored furniture usually much better than newer stuff. Usually it’s made with much more attention to detail and way over engineered in a good way. This is obviously retasked, but I think it would look badass in a loft apartment in an old mill building loft(My dream apartment).
$910??? Anyone in Virginia looking for a factory cart at a much better price, contact Nelson Storage LLC in central Virginia (we have a side salvage and antique business). We have several beautiful carts, some to which we have added a polished stone top - talk about a badass coffee table!
Got a website Jamie? Love to take a look!
I don’t mind restored furniture, per se. My comments pertain to this specific piece.
See http://www.nelsonstoragellc.com/architecturalsalvage.html
Jamie, for the edification of our readers - what is the price of your carts? Very nice alternative.
Very nice Jamie! Wish I had that loft apartment…
Unrestored carts are $150, restored and refinished (like Restoration Hardware’s) are $300. With a polished stone top, the price would depend on the stone (marble, granite, Uba Tuba…). I will post more pictures of furniture factory carts as available.
Jamie, keep us in the loop on your work. We’d love to give it a review. Some of my counterparts here at GP might disagree with the aesthetic, but I think its one hell of a great table.
i wouldn’t mind having one for my basement (semi-mancave). it’s definitely a masculine piece. but i would go for Jamie’s long before Restoration Hardware’s. i think that’s a prime example of something that happens in that industry more often than people realize. the markup that must exist on a $1000 piece of old, industrial hardware has got to be extreme!
in regards to the piece itself, i think it has a very cool feel to it but would only work in certain applications. it looks like a piece that needs to be surrounded by low lighting, crude, early 1900s surgical instruments, and maybe a few episodes of Dexter (which is only the single greatest show to ever be on TV).
Well, now Uncrate has it posted too, so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about … I still think I do.
http://www.uncrate.com/men/home/furniture/furniture-factory-cart/
Funny how that works. I wonder where Uncrate would be if they didn’t have a whole host of other men’s sites to rip ideas off of.
I’ve been visiting Uncrate for more than a year and this is the first time I’ve ever seen them duplicate something from somewhere else. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but this is a first that I’ve noticed.
And also a first since I started visiting GP a couple of months ago.
Dirt,a friend of GP’s runs another site called acquiremag.com I suggest you check it out.
Dirt,
It takes some digging around, but once you find the sources the copying is flagrant.
-Jon
Wow, that’s very similar. A chicken-and-egg type of situation?
I’m not sure of the time frame so I can’t say who is the chicken and who is the egg. UC I believe was one of the first though, hence why it’s become so big.
A lot of the similar content issues revolve however around corporate press releases. If you were to subscribe to a ton of corporate news letters, you’d see that a majority of what buying guide sitespost is based on the corporate product press releases they receive that day or the day before.
At Gear Patrol, we rarely ever do that except for monumental products (typically tech related), that the entire net will be talking about. That’s why the majority of our content isn’t like other sites. Our hope is that in the end we’ll be better for it.
My cart just arrived. Maybe I overpaid, but it looks gorgeous in this hopelessly eclectic pad; American leather furniture, pieces from China, Turkey Colombia etc, places where I’ve lived and traveled. Getting lazy in my old age so this is store bot, but it does look nice.
Gear Patrol reader John Houx sent us a photo of the Restoration Hardware Vintage Furniture Cart. With his permission we thought we’d upload it for you all to see it in a real-world environment (headsup: the photo is a little small and a bit dark). Thanks for sending this in John!
Everyone: Feel free to send us pics of your gear too (submissions @ gearpatrol.com). You never know what might get published.
I called on this restoration warehouse on this item and they told me after shipping and taxes it was 1235….and they have to ship it to you….just cant go to the store and pick it up…Jamie, does Nelson ship?
I'm going to be restoring up to 9 of these, planning on asking about $500 + shipping depending on demand. If anyone's interested, email me and Id be happy to talk and send pics! Definitely keeping one for myself
hotorihanzosan at yahoo.com
I have approx. 375 carts ( unrestored ) due to a factory closing in North Carolina. If there is buyer or (you know of someone who might be interested) in all or multiple carts, please advise. Buyers, please advise price you are willing to pay.
Thank you ,
Ron
Where are you located?
How many do you have? How much for all ?
Hi Ron, I am definately interested in a cart depending on the condition / markings.
Central NC area near High Point, NC
Central NC area near High Point, NC
All carts have been sold, please remove my post from 3 weeks ago.
Thank you,
Ron
We ordered from RH and the cart that came had a board that was a new "simulated" replacement boards nailed to the cart among the old original boards. We notified them and were told we could return for a complete refund. We ordered a second, and it came even worse than the first. Now RH is claiming they need more info to process our original return after telling us it was in the works. We're stuck with 2 unsatisfactory carts at $300 more than we could have paid had we known other places had them. (Napa Style also has them) Unless RH comes through for us this will be our last purchase from them.