The Studio

Granary Haus is a design-build furniture studio based in Salt Lake City, Utah, creating one-of-a-kind pieces that live at the intersection of art and function. Each piece is designed and built to be used every day, meant to age, patina, and quietly record the story of the life around it.

Granary Haus is led by Ethan Miller, designer and furniture maker. Creativity and design have always been central to my life. I grew up surrounded by thoughtful interiors through my mother’s work as an interior designer, developing an early appreciation for proportion, material, and how objects shape the feeling of a space. Building and making have long been part of that foundation, informing a natural transition into furniture design and fabrication.

Craft & Process

Today, I work with a blend of modern and traditional tools, including pieces handed down from my great-grandfather, who worked as a carpenter. That connection to both past and present shapes how I think about furniture, not as disposable objects, but as enduring pieces meant to live alongside the people who use them.

Design Influence

My work pulls from architecture, sculpture, and the natural world as much as from furniture. I'm drawn to things that feel considered and crafted, pieces that carry a sense of presence in a room.

In practice, that shows up as visible handcraft: surface carvings, inlays, exaggerated proportions, forms that grow from the material. I'm interested in furniture that feels authored. The choices a maker works through, how a form resolves, where weight lands; to me, these qualities give a piece life that mass-manufactured objects don't have.

At its core, Granary Haus is about creating functional art with character by humans and for humans.