September 29th, 2025

Fifteen Years of Garza

It was fifteen years ago that Jamey Garza and Constance Holt-Garza introduced their iconic Round Saddle Leather Chair to the public, a design they had been thinking about since their move to Marfa, Texas from CA in 2003. To celebrate the fifteen year anniversary of The Garza Round Chair we dug into the evolution of how it came to be.

Inspired by the Acapulco chair, after the 1950’s jet-set destination, with a bucket shaped seat woven in colorful nylon cord, the Mexican model uses techniques from indigenous Mayan hammock weavers. By re-imagining the original handwoven seat with vegetable-tanned saddle leather and adding an inverted wishbone-shaped base, the Garza’s transformed a breezy bohemian beach lounger into a rugged and refined rendering for The High Plains Desert. The Garza Round Chair merges the ethos of West Texas cattle ranching culture with the cerebral aesthetic of minimalism, embodying the contrasting worlds that inhabit the town of Marfa.

The Garza’s came to Texas from CA to work on a redesign of The Thunderbird back in the early 2000’s. Constance had a previous life in fashion and Jamey in fabrication and design. Their partnership is as much about love and romance as it is about innovation, self-determination and vision. Plans to move back to Jamey’s hometown of Austin shifted when the Garza’s found the arid expanses of West Texas to be a productive home base to work out creative ideas.

The Garza’s collaborate on all their furniture pieces through a repetitive process of sketching, building and critiquing until both agree on the final design. Prototypes are built in Marfa while production fabrication is done with help from local craftspeople at their studio in El Paso. Final finish work and assembly on each piece is completed by Jamey before shipping.

In 2010 after years of testing, tweaking and refitting till the leather sat just right the Garza’s launched The Round Chair with powder coated steel legs in their signature color palette. With this first original design, The Round Chair became the starting point for Constance and Jamey’s saddle leather collection ultimately released in 2012 at the Heath Ceramics ‘Marfa Amigos’ exhibition in LA, which included fellow Marfa artists whom Jamey & Constance invited to take part.

Fifteen years later Jamey and Constance continue to fabricate and produce their furniture in West Texas. We wanted to celebrate this fifteen year milestone to acknowledge the journey. We also wanted to thank the community of Marfa, Garza’s first customers and supporters as well as those who just found us. Garza Marfa may be fifteen years out but we're just getting started...

For inquiries feel free to reach out, we personally answer all customer emails. Thanks for being here, stay tuned for more updates!

Cheers, THE GARZA MARFA TEAM

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