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 is influenced by architecture as much as furniture, with clean, grounded forms drawn from Scandinavian and Brutalist traditions, balanced with moments of rawness, abstraction, and play. I’m interested in pieces that feel calm and resolved, but never sterile.

At its core, Granary Haus is about creating functional art. Furniture shouldn’t just occupy a room – it should become part of it. Wood changes over time, wearing where hands rest and deepening with light and use. Those changes aren’t flaws; they’re a record of a life lived. My goal is to build furniture worthy of that story.