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What We Do
Space Creators
DSO Furniture is a commercial furniture dealer serving commercial, education and healthcare clients. We serve as ‘space creators’ helping our clients design engaging environments for productive work, inspiring classrooms, and healing spaces .
DSO Furniture has two critical competitive advantages over all other commercial furniture dealers. Firstly, we have a sensational team of relationship builders, space designers, project managers, and installation managers. Secondly, we have an incredibly extensive line list of furniture manufacturers ranging from bespoke veneer lines serving professional service offices, to mid-price range playful lines, and even in-stock ready to ship inexpensive lines for non-profits.
‘DSO Flow’ is one metric we utilize evaluating projects. In Mihály Csikszentmihalyi’s book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, he describes flow as a person performing some activity that is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In designing spaces, we strive to apply DSO Flow to their spaces in our roles as space creators. DSO Furniture was founded in 1972 and we understand that we all work for our customers, and we are only as good as our last project.
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Our Team
We Are Furniture Nerds
Matt Terrell
Partner
Matt became a furniture nerd when he joined DSO Furniture after a career as an entrepreneur, educator and business consultant. Prior to DSO, Matt founded and led several businesses and taught entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware. He also served as a Peace Corps Small Business Development Volunteer in the Dominican Republic. Matt received his bachelor’s degree from Babson College and is a Certified Office Ergonomics Evaluator through Humanscale.
Lyra Mancini
Designer
Lyra became a furniture nerd in 2025 when she joined DSO Furniture. Prior to DSO, Lyra taught music in schools in Santa Fe, NM, and previously worked as a designer for a commercial furniture dealership in Cincinnati, OH. Lyra has a Bachelor’s degree in Music from The Ohio State University and an Associate’s degree in Interior Design from Sinclair Community College.
Krista Eckrote
Project Manager
Krista first became a furniture nerd in 2021. Prior to DSO Furniture, Krista managed a physical therapy practice in North Wilmington for 7 years. Krista has an Associates degree in Exercise Science from Delaware Technical Community College.
Jaime Kegerise
Installation Manager
Jamie first because a furniture nerd working in furniture sales in the 1980’s working for a Baltimore dealer. He managed Signature for 10 years overseeing furnituire installation in the 1990’s before leading DSO Furniture in 2001. Jamie received his Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education and Sociology/Anthropology at Millersville University.
Chili
Chief Comfort Officer
Chili takes comfort very seriously. As DSO Furniture’s Chief Comfort Officer, she’s responsible for quality control on anything soft, cozy, or nap-worthy. When she’s not conducting rigorous sit tests, Chili keeps morale high, meetings appropriately interrupted, and the team reminded that every great workspace should feel as good as it looks.
Her design philosophy: If you wouldn’t curl up on it, why would anyone else?