Peter and Marcie Maynard of Cold River Furniture in South Acworth, NH have been crafting fine handmade furniture for the past 35 years. Their work has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and featured in The New York Times, Architectural Digest and American Bungalow. Traditional Home Magazine named Peter one of the countries top five furniture makers and Woodworking Magazine feature him on their cover.

Currently the Maynards are referencing the principles of the Arts & Crafts Movement to search for an indelible furniture style inspired by the great North American landscape. In earlier years while designing and making fine furniture in a broad range of classical styles, the Peter was drawn to the raw simplicity depicted in early landscape paintings of 1830's artists Karl Bodmer and George Catlin. The impressions left from these artists serves to guide them in their Cold River Furniture designs.

Their furniture is made from the highest quality materials and crafted with great attention to detail. Among Peter's favorite activities are finding and procuring prime logs from local forests, logyards and farms, sawing them into premium "flitch-matched" lumber, carefully drying that lumber and then making a piece of furniture of undeniable beauty.