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Doorman Documentary with National Geographic

Alex Geriner, founder of Doorman Designs furniture hangs out with National Geographic and the National Geographic Channel to talk about design, architecture, and what it means to build furniture from New Orleans’ 300 year old past. Doorman Designs was profiled along with an entire cast of New Orleans artists including-Brandan “B-Mike” Odums, DJ Soul Sister, and Abigail Gullo,

After Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Alex started building furniture from the city’s ruins turning it in to handcrafted original pieces that eventually became part of Doorman Designs’ larger furniture collection. It all started with a salvaged door he found from a historic New Orleans home flooded from the storm. Once cleaned up and embellished with antique ceiling tins, he gave the door new life as a headboard in his first apartment. The rest is history…

Nowadays, Doorman Designs is much more than furniture made from old doors. It’s evolved in to a product line of boutique handmade furniture sold exclusively online. A 21st century company that blends old materials in to fresh new designs for today’s modern home.  Everything is designed and built in their workshop along the Ms. River. Their work spanning from bar stools to beds, nightstands to dining tables.

Katrina is a scar of the past, and today materials are sourced (both new and old) from around the Gulf South. We blend incredible slabs of cypress dug up from local swamps to create dining tables, or wood salvaged from old barges to create their popular Earhart stools. Barge board is definitely the favored wood to work with around the shop. This is wood that was once parts of old barges that brought Americans down the Ms. River after the Louisiana purchase from the French in 1803. The barge board was then used to build new homes all across New Orleans.