JP FREY's Raw Material - A colorful and historical recycled wood

Collected Wood

Reclaimed wood stored in the warehouse

Furniture Finishing

All Jean-Pierre Frey furniture are made with recycled wood from the old destructed houses of the Dominican Republic.

Jean-Pierre Frey not only uses the wood of the houses, but also makes knobs for drawers out of the original door hardware, for example...

Thanks to his inner knowledge of colors, the simple and old pieces of wood become art furniture.

The multiple layers of luxurious varnish that are added to the furniture of Jean-Pierre Frey give them this fabulous glow.

A piece of the Caribbean Patrimony in your Home!

Jean-Pierre Frey gives new life to wood that housed it's owners loyally since the 1920s or 1930s and is now contained in fabulous pieces that are in many homes in Casa de Campo, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Palm Beach, Miami, New York City, The Hamptons, Bogota,  São  Paulo , Buenos Aires, Paris, Milano...

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Reinventing a Piece of the Caribbean History and lost Patrimony as Art

In 2005, living by the Cumayasa River, close to La Romana in the Dominican Republic, Jean-Pierre Frey was struck by the number of large pieces of drift wood scattered around its shores, which gave him the idea to begin making furniture for his first time in his life.

But because of its irregular shape, it limited the types of furniture he could make. 

All that changed when a friend of him told him an old house in the city of La Romana was beeing torn down.

As fate would have it, it was years early during a visit to the country that he found the same house. Sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and shirtless was an older man.

"The house was really interesting, painted in pastel colors reminiscent of old Victorian Caribbean houses, and it was made for a perfect picture", Jean-Pierre Frey explains.

So last year when the house was demolished he bought the wood, loaded three trucks of wood boards and brought them to his house.

"What's interesting about the wood is that although it had this pastel blue color on the outside underneath there was a rainbow of colors", he says. Jean-Pierre FREY counted more than 10 coats of paint on some pieces!

First panel made with the old wood from the destructed Caribbean houses,  recycled by Jean-Pierre FREY...

First vanity created by Jean-Pierre FREY, with the old wood from the destructed Caribbean houses...