In February 2020, Oku Space founders Nick Rennie, Brett Julian + Dustin Fritsche decided to combine their expertise and make furniture.

Oku Space is a Melbourne-based furniture brand established by a trio of designers and makers with a desire to produce high-end sustainable furniture for residential and commercial markets. In February 2020, Oku Space founders Nick Rennie, Brett Julian and Dustin Fritsche decided to combine their expertise to develop a range of furniture. They had been sharing workshop space for a number of years, were good friends and knew the strengths of each other’s work ? Brett and Dustin?s extensive experience with furniture manufacturing and Nick?s expertise in developing award-winning product designs.

Oku Space?s first collection is made up of 11 pieces, a range offering storage, seating, dining and office furniture. The timber-focused collection is a demonstration of the founders’ precise design combined with expert craftsmanship. The flagship product is the OS1, a dining chair that can be stacked four high and is available in a range of solid woods, with or without an upholstered seat. The trio’s goal in designing OS1 was to create a chair that’s beautiful as a stand-alone object, but that can also be stacked if needed.
I find chairs to be the most challenging design, as whilst most fundamental is the comfort, they need to be functional as well, and this is where I think the stackability is so important. Whilst we...