ABOUT US
WHO
Dusken is a Melbourne-based furniture design and fabrication studio. With a background in architecture, they focus on cultivating rigorous design thinking, meaningful design outcomes, and realising those outcomes through contemporary technology and local materials.
Founded by brothers Tim and Chris Fullwood, Dusken exists to offer timelessness – pieces that sit in quiet dialogue with their surroundings, and remain relevant for decades to come.
Tim leads design. He holds a Master of Architecture and a Diploma of Industrial Design, and spent over seven years in construction, often constructing the very projects he had designed. His unique blend of conceptual design thinking, fabrication & materials understanding, and digital systems expertise is the foundation of Dusken's approach.
Chris oversees operations. With a Master of Property & Construction and eight years’ experience in product development, he brings systems thinking to the business. His Master’s thesis explored the environmental impact of plywood and engineered fibreboard, which continues to inform Dusken’s material choices.
The brothers’ connection to manufacturing began long before Dusken. Their family business supplied components to the Australian automotive industry for decades, and they gained hands-on experience during school holidays spent on the factory floor. As they grew older, they worked to develop new products and processes, while also watching an entire industry fade from a deep knowledge base and major employer to near extinction.
Dusken approaches modern manufacturing with a respect for where it comes from, and a desire to build a version of it that’s fit for the future.
WHY
The idea for Dusken emerged when Tim and Chris consistently struggled to find furniture and joinery that suited their architecture clients’ needs – furniture that served the spatial intentions of the project, carried presence without overpowering the space, and was built to last as long as the building itself. At a time of rapidly increasing material costs and supply chain volatility, they realised the best way to serve their clients was to build the furniture themselves. Drawing on their combined experience across design, construction, product engineering, and software integration, they got to work and developed an in-house system to do exactly that.
Dusken represents a purposeful distillation of the practices, technologies and hard-learned lessons from those earlier years. More than that, it’s their active proposition of a new way to make – one in which small local teams can produce world-class work. Where the designer’s idea is fully realised in the physical product, because designer and manufacturer are one and the same. A world where the benefits of in-house making (minimal transport, local materials, face-to-face collaboration) are combined with the precision, efficiency, and scalability of machine-based manufacturing.
HOW
AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH
What sets architectural furniture apart?
Architectural objects aren't content with being compelling for their own sake. They participate in the life of a room. They belong to a space, often composed with geometry designed specifically for it. They orient, guide, and define: shaping thresholds, directing movement, and creating pause. They speak a language – in dialogue with other pieces, with the room, with the people who use it. They are complete works of function, form, and delight. They endure, both physically and aesthetically.
Dusken pieces aim to embody these principles. To read more about how, view the Rationale & Range.
BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP
Dusken’s approach to designer furniture didn’t begin with sourcing; it began with building. Not just the furniture itself, but the systems and tools required to make it with the precision, consistency and elegance they demanded.
They developed their own proprietary framework for creating furniture – the design language from which all their pieces are derived. At its core is an interwoven network of Australian hardwood corners & edges, and Hoop Pine ply panels – usually configured as a continuous flowing plane punctuated by doored enclosures. Dusken’s remarkable detailing brings each piece to life, revealing the care and precision behind its making. This adaptable foundation allows for endless configurations, and can be expressed across a vast range of sizes, functions, and spatial conditions.
Painstakingly developed over more than two years, this framework is more than what's visible in the finished pieces – it’s an integrated ecosystem of custom in-house fabrication. Beneath the surface lies a world of precision-engineered processes, from dedicated software systems to advanced machining, refined assembly techniques, and even bespoke sanding instruments. Each stage is interconnected; each process dependent on the one prior and after. This fully integrated, end-to-end approach is what sets Dusken apart – every piece is as remarkable in its making as it is in its form.
Dusken have meticulously pored over every cut, join, curve, material choice, and detail. And are dedicated to applying that same determination to every piece they make.