About the Huber Scoop

A chair & a story

In the 60s, a Toronto furniture manufacturer by the name of R. Huber & Co. put a chair into production. It had a deep scooped seat and a curved backrest & a solid teak frame. People who sat in it found it exceptionally comfortable. People who saw it found it beautiful in a quiet, confident way. The company called it the Scoop, which was descriptive before it was clever. They made the chair, then went on to make a sofa version & a rocking version & later a swivel version, sold all across Canada. And then at some point, they stopped.

Nobody knows who designed the Scoop. The name of the person responsible for one of the most distinctive Canadian chairs of the mid century is simply absent from the record. The company itself vanished the same way, with no acquisition, successor, or archive. Collectors trade the surviving chairs among themselves & repeat the same small handful of facts because those are all the facts there are.

A chair this good deserves to exist outside the vintage market. It deserves to be made again, by people who understand what it is.

Ontario wood, Ontario hands

We build every Huber Scoop Chair to order in partnership with Mennonite woodworkers in Ontario. These are furniture makers whose trade runs through families & across generations. Their approach to joinery comes from a tradition where a joint either fits or it does not, and a surface either feels right under the hand or it goes back to the bench. There is a refreshing absence of ambiguity in that kind of work.

Each chair uses premium hardwood selected for grain and stability. The scooped seat shell receives the same attention that Mennonite furniture has always demanded: clean lines, honest materials, and buckets of patience. We source upholstery fabrics from the best suppliers in Canada, choosing for durability & texture & the way light moves across the chair's curves. Our wood finishes come from carpenters whose products have been trusted by cabinetmakers and furniture builders for decades.

Made to order

We carry no inventory. When you place an order, your chair enters the build queue with your name on it. You choose the hardwood finish and the upholstery fabric. Our 3D configurator lets you explore combinations in real time before you commit. Delivery runs six to eight weeks from order to doorstep, because good work takes the time it takes.

Keep the chair around

The R. Huber Scoop belongs in living rooms & reading nooks & the quiet corner of a bedroom where someone sits with coffee before the rest of the house wakes up. It belongs under sleepy cats & heavy winter blankets and the particular light of late afternoon.

We're here to make the chair. The story of who designed it and where the company went remains a mystery. But some questions are better left open.