At right is Trine’s main work table, which is essentially a giant green cutting board. He doesn’t manufacture products in the studio, but he does do all of the leather work in-house. “We cut it into strips, we weave the chairs ourselves, all of the product comes through here.” Wanting to keep his business local is a personal choice, he says. “Not so much from an ethics point of view, it’s more of a lifestyle thing. I don’t want to travel overseas all the time. And I don’t want to have to hire someone to do that for me overseas. I want to be able to have a beer with my vendors at end of a work day.”