We build all manner of residential and commercial cabinets, custom furniture, doors, paneling, and other custom items. Our primary focus is building sustained relationships with our clients based on trust. By working with clients over time on multiple projects, we can come to understand their design process and offer collaboration and insight that creates the best possible project outcomes for everyone involved in the project. Stay-Straight Manufacturing has worked with some of Chicago's leading architectural, design, and building firms.
Stay-Straight Manufacturing was founded in 1999 by Louis Brandt. Stay-Straight originally set out to make canvas stretchers, pedestals and related items for artists, museums and galleries. Calling on his experience as a fine artist while completing his MFA degree at the University of Chicago, Mr. Brandt developed a unique system for stretchers that solved the common problem of paintings that warped their stretchers, thus the name Stay-Straight Manufacturing. While serving the arts community, Stay-Straight continued to design and build furniture and cabinetry.
