Timeless. Modern.
Refined. Relaxed.

Cuff Studio is a female founder brand serving homeowners and design professionals with furniture and lighting handmade in California.

Our Story

Cuff Studio is California-based and was founded in 2008 by Kristi Bender and Wendy Schwartz. All pieces are conceived and produced in Los Angeles. Inspired by geometry, architecture, and lifestyle, Cuff Studio furniture and lighting are timeless, modern, relaxed, and refined. Using an intentional layering and dialogue of materiality, form, density, and texture – all pieces are conceived to occupy a shared space in a way that feels evolved and dimensional without appearing matched. Cuff Studio is women run and women operated. They have a gallery in Los Angeles and maintain a select inventory of offerings available for memo or sit tests in New York City.

Experience Cuff Studio

Located in the bustling Melrose Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cuff Studio's flagship gallery is available for visits, sit tests, sample requests, and more by appointment only Monday - Friday.

Spring 2025, Cuff Studio expanded its footprint with a shared space in New York. The Showroom by Studio Nordic x Past Lives in Nomad features select pieces from Cuff Studio — marking a natural continuation of a West Coast-East Coast synergy.

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Meet the Team


Cuff Studio is an all-female team of incredible women. Our team is small but mighty. We are scrappy and willing to do what is required to propel the business forward. Each member of the team brings their unique history, perspective and insight. We raise our hand to support each other as life’s circumstances require. Cuff Studio is entirely self funded and is therefore very intentional in any decisions and strategies we consider.

  • Wendy Schwartz
    Co Founder and Design Principal

  • Kristi Bender
    Co Founder and Creative Principal

  • Lindsay Potts
    Managing Director

  • Amy Saranecki
    Director of Trade Sales

  • Alana Hollander
    Studio Manager

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Core Values

At Cuff Studio, everything produced is driven by a singular purpose: to make luxury, hand-crafted furniture and lighting designed to become classics and intended to last generations. Our work and our team embraces the Cuff Studio core values that define us, our partners and potential team members. 

Curiosity: Through exploration, we learn and discover resulting in an insatiable desire to push the boundaries and to innovate.

Confidence: We embrace self-assurance and rely heavily on our instincts, but are egoless and able to learn from our mistakes.

Rigor: Our obsessive process ensures that every element of a design and communication is carefully crafted. No detail is overlooked, both in our work and in our client relationships. Every material is considered, every need anticipated, ensuring a thoughtful process and result from start to finish.

Generosity: A cornerstone of our team ethos that extends to our clients, peers and partners. We thrive in community and in sharing.

Creativity: We are boundless in our ideas and solutions.