The Thorsen House is in Berkeley, several hundred miles away from the Pasadena home of the Hall brothers shop. Only the dining room furniture was part of the original commission, and workers were sent to the job site to assemble the furniture in the basement of the house. There were also several wonderful built-ins in the Thorsen House, so it made sense to do all of this work on site. Whether the men on site built the furniture from scratch, or only assembled parts prepared in the mill in Pasadena, isn’t known.