About Cape Craftsmen

Our Story

Cape Craftsmen started in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1983, drawing porch furniture and coastal garden décor from the coastline outside the door. Evergreen Enterprises acquired the brand in 2006 and kept the vocabulary intact: fish, seahorse, shorebird, driftwood, flamingo.

You will not find a matched five-piece set here. You find statement pieces that share a language, which is a different promise. Put the fish-motif bench on your porch and the hand-blown driftwood terrarium in your living room, and the two read as siblings without matching.

The design brief written in 1983 still decides what gets made. A tubular-steel frame carries a cast-iron back on the coastal bench because a decorative frame that flexes under two adults stops being furniture. That frame is rated to 440 lbs, and the number sits on the listing instead of being implied by a photograph.

Handwork survives where a machine would flatten it. Bali artisans blow molten recycled glass straight into a teak driftwood root, so each 10"-tall terrarium bowl seats in a groove that bowl cut for itself. No two settle the same way, which is the point of buying one.

The catch worth knowing before you buy: buyer ratings run from the bench at the top down to 3.2 stars on the bicycle planter. Read the low ones. They point at the folding tray stand and at assembly hardware, not at the bench frame or the glass work. Owners who go back over the X-frame fasteners a second time rarely report the wobble at all.

Your risk stays covered where it counts. The bench listing carries a quality-guarantee promise to make a problem right through direct contact, and the retailer's standard 30-day return window applies to every piece you order.