THE STORY BEGINS WITH ONE FURNITURE DESIGNER, DMITRY KOZACHYSHYN, AND HIS IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO CREATE HOME OBJECTS. DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE ALREADY HAD QUITE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WORKING IN VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL CARPENTRY COMPANIES ON DIFFERENT ENDS OF THE EARTH AND THE CORRESPONDING COMPLETED EDUCATION IN THE SPECIALTY OF FURNITURE DESIGN AT THE LVIV NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, THE HISTORY OF THE COMPANY ITSELF BEGAN IN 2023 IN POLAND WHEN HE LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY CLOSED HIMSELF FOR A FEW YEARS IN THE WORKSHOP TO THOROUGHLY STUDY MATERIALS SUCH AS METAL, LEATHER, FABRIC AND LEARN PERFECTLY THE CRAFT OF THEIR PROCESSING ALONG WITH ESTABLISHING ALL PROCESS CHAINS.

"I ALREADY HAD QUITE A GOOD EXPERIENCE IN DESIGNING WOODEN FURNITURE, ABOUT 15 YEARS, BUT I ALSO WANTED TO LEARN OTHER MATERIALS, BESIDES, DESIGNING AND INDEPENDENT PROCESSING ARE DIFFERENT THINGS. AT THAT TIME, I RENTED AN ORDINARY 3X4 METER GARAGE, WHICH I USED AS A WORKSHOP. I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT SUCH THINGS AS METALWORKING, LEATHER PROCESSING, FABRIC SEWING. I DIDN’T EVEN GUESS ABOUT THE NAMES AND TYPES OF WELDING, WHAT IS TIG WELDING AND MANY MORE QUESTIONS AND NUANCES CONCERNING THIS PROCESS, AS WELL AS WHAT NEEDLES AND SEWING MACHINES ARE USED FOR SEWING LEATHER, AND WHAT FOR SEWING FABRIC, BUT I WANTED TO AND WAS READY TO ACQUIRE ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE."

FROM THAT MOMENT ON, HIS TRAINING AND PRACTICE BEGAN, HE DEDICATED HIMSELF TO BECOMING A MASTER OF HIS CRAFT. “GRADUALLY I LEARNED THE THEORY, I BOUGHT MY FIRST WELDING MACHINE AND HEAVY DUTY SEWING MACHINE, TOOLS FOR WORKING WITH LEATHER AND METAL. I LEARNED HOW TO SILVER BRAZRE STAINLESS STEEL AND HOW TO ETCH IT. I TOOK ON WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY FOR THE SAKE OF THE END RESULT. I WAS LIKE A ONE BAND MAN. MANY TECHNICALLY EQUIPPED COMPANIES DIDN’T WANT TO DO SMALL PIECES OF WORK SUCH AS TUBE BANDING, SO I HAD TO DO IT MYSELF. IN FACT, I ALREADY HAD PROJECTS FOR SERIAL FURNITURE PRODUCED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, BUT I ALWAYS WANTED THE BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY OF BOTH EXECUTION AND PRESENTATION OF MY PRODUCT. ALTHOUGH I UNDERSTOOD THAT DESIGN IS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, MY FACE. FOR THIS REASON, I ALSO TOOK ON THINGS LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY AND CAPTURING IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF PRODUCTION MYSELF, TRYING TO DO ALONE AT TIMES WHAT ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE DO.”

THE COMPANY NAME ALSO HAS ITS OWN HISTORY. “WHILE WORKING FOR ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE COMPANIES IN DUBAI, UAE, A NEW COWORKER JOINED OUR TEAM, ON HIS FIRST DAY HE DECIDED TO GO AROUND TO ALL THE OFFICE EMPLOYEES TO GET ACQUAINTED. WHEN HE APPROACHED ME WITH A NOTEPAD AND A PEN IN HIS HANDS, HE ASKED MY LAST AND FIRST NAME, TO WHICH I ANSWERED KOZACHYSHYN DIMA WHICH IS SHORT FORM OF DMITRY. BUT APPARENTLY, THEY WERE QUITE DIFFICULT TO PERCEIVE BY EAR THE FIRST TIME AND WITHOUT DICTATION LETTER BY LETTER, SO HE SIMPLY WROTE THEM DOWN AS "CO" AND "DEE". FROM THAT MOMENT ON, I KNEW THAT MY COMPANY WOULD BE CALLED CODEE.”