Steve and Sue Copsey have spent a lifetime in two adjacent trades — antique sourcing and reproduction manufacturing. Adams Furniture is what happens when both live under the same roof and inform each other.
The Copseys have spent decades doing the three things that make real furniture: sourcing antiques across Europe and the United States, curating the collections that fill our showroom floors, and building reproduction pieces in North Carolina to the same standards as the antiques they bring home.
That triple-track experience is the through-line. The manufacturing side knows what makes antiques last. The sourcing side trains the eye for what's worth reproducing. Both halves train the other.
Adams began in 1975 as an antiques importer, sourcing primarily from London and the wider European trade. Over the next two decades the company kept showrooms in Boston and San Francisco before settling permanently in High Point in 1998.
Those years on the sourcing side trained the eye for what actually holds up — the proportions, the joinery, the materials, the upholstery construction that separates a piece still standing two centuries later from one that fell apart in a decade. That eye is still doing the work today, on every floor and in every shop.
Somewhere along the way Adams stopped only sourcing furniture and started building it. Not because it was cheaper to outsource production overseas — it would have been. Because the antique standards we'd built our eye around weren't being met by the new furniture in the market.
We make in North Carolina because the craftsmen who can still work to those standards live here. Every upholstered headboard, every solid-wood table, every dining chair in our line is built piece by piece in our shop, in fabrics and finishes you specify, and ships from the same place it was made.
The two halves of Adams today — both shaped by the same decades of work.
Antique, vintage, and sourced inventory that rotates across our five showrooms. Hand-picked by the same eye that trained the manufacturing side.
Made-to-order furniture, built in our North Carolina shop in the fabric, finish, and dimensions you specify — customized for your home, your unique need, or your clients.
Adams works with private clients building a single room and with designers, dealers, and hospitality teams specifying a full project. Trade pricing and account terms are available on request.