Sauder Furniture Buying Guide

Sauder Woodworking Co. is North America’s leading producer of ready to assemble furniture and the nation’s fifth largest residential furniture manufacturer. Sauder also sources furniture from a network of quality global partners, including a line of office chairs that complement its residential and light commercial office furniture.

Sauder markets more than 30 distinct furniture collections in a full line of RTA furnishings for the home and office. Sauder's ready to assemble furniture is sold under distinct brands including Sauder and Studio Edge. Specific chairs are also available under the Gruga brand name.

Award winning design

Many office furnishing manufacturers can help you create an organized, comfortable and fashionable place to work. But Sauder provides a special kind of furniture that is practical and affordable, as well as attractive and enduring. As North America's leading producer of ready-to-assemble furniture, Sauder offers more than 500 items that have won national design awards and generated thousands of letters of gratitude from satisfied consumers.

Innovation comes first

Part of Sauder’s success is based on their practical beginnings. As the inventor of ready-to-assemble furniture, Sauder has a long history of function-oriented design. The same ingenuity that spawned a new, highly accessible type of furniture guides their decision-making today as they create storage-packed home office pieces and entertainment units that expand to house changing TV sizes. Sauder bases their design on research that tells them what you want and how high-tech innovations will impact your office environment in the future.

Function with style

Sauder is keenly aware that all function and no fashion makes for a dull working space when it comes to office furnishing products. That's why their award-winning design team has produced a variety of stylish furniture collections that span the design spectrum. Minimalist modern? They have it. Classic 18th century styles in a cherry finish? It's there. No matter what style best suits your work space, Sauder has the right furniture for it.

Easy-to-assemble

While good things come to those who wait, Sauder knows you want to enjoy your new furniture as soon as possible. That's why they've cut assembly time in half in the last few years with such patented innovations as slide-on moldings, easy-to-use fasteners, and T-slot and slide-together drawer assembly systems. Just to make sure that assembly is as easy as possible and that their detailed instructions are simple to understand, from time to time Sauder tests their products by having sixth-grade students from local schools assemble them. More Information About Sauder Furniture

History

In 1934, Erie Sauder started a woodworking business in a barn behind his Archbold, Ohio home. Originally building custom cabinets and church pews, he began crafting small tables from what he called “leftovers.” Not wanting to waste scraps from expensive fine woods, the frugal businessman began producing inexpensive occasional tables. In 1940, these tables caught the attention of a traveling salesman who placed an order for 25,000 tables – a seemingly daunting quantity for the fledgling company. Using ingenuity and sheer determination, Sauder Woodworking Co. incorporated and production began. Then, in 1951, Sauder introduced an entirely new concept – a patented table that could be assembled in the home. This snap-together table marked the beginning of the ready-to-assemble furniture industry

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