St Johns Woodworking

St. John’s Woodworking was started in 1981 as Gavin Construction by sculptor Jack Gavin. His career began as a practicing fine artist, with cabinetmaking for his friends as a side line. The demand for his cabinets eventually outpaced demand for his artwork, and the sideline became a full-time business. Today St. John's Woodworking employs 8 full - time cabinetmakers, finishers and installers, with 10,000 square feet of shop space in Brooklyn and hundreds of thousands of dollars in high-tech woodworking machinery.

We are custom cabinetmakers and build each piece to our client’s specifications. We are almost never asked to build the same design twice and are experienced with many different furniture styles, from Chippendale to Memphis. We specialize in custom veneer work. Our clients have access to the most exquisite woods of the world, often available only in veneer form. Our relationships with local craftspeople allow us to offer and incorporate in our work metal, stone, leather, fabric, plastic, acrylic and glass.

We use advanced CAD Software and build everything in virtual 3D Shop Drawings before production, this allows us to streamline our fabrication and avoid design errors. We do not advertise, rely on repeat business and customer referrals spanning 30 years and we absolutely guarantee everything we build.

We are the preferred Millwork Contractor of following Construction Companies, Architects and Designers: Certified of New York, Silverlining Interiors, Darren Henault Interiors, Tim Neiman Interiors, Greenstreet Construction, Grenfell Construction, GT Development, Ivy Painting & Contracting, Lawrence O’ Neill, AIA, Michael Blasberg, AIA, Milgo Buffkin, RHExhibits, Rollner Architectural Metals, Ambiance Improvement, Richard Mishaan. Some of our notable individual clients are Lorne Michaels; Marisa Tomei; Mark Messier; Manolo Blahnik. Below is a list of addresses of Residential Buildings in Manhattan we have supplied and installed cabinetry and furniture for apartments, Millwork for Museums and Institutions for both Permanent and Special Exhibitions, in recent years: