What we buy
- Case goods — wardrobes, sideboards, desks, TV units, minibar cabinets.
- Seating — dining chairs, lounge chairs, bar stools, benches, upholstered pieces.
- Tables — dining, coffee, console, meeting tables in solid wood, veneer and stone.
- Beds and bedroom — bed frames, headboards, nightstands, dressers.
- Contract furniture — hotel-grade pieces built to a stated use cycle and fire standard.
- Loose and fixed — freestanding pieces and millwork built to a drawing set.
Why furniture fails after shipping
A chair leaves Foshan at 14% moisture content, in a container that crosses the equator, and lands in a building with 35% relative humidity heating in winter. The joints open. The panel cups. The drawer no longer closes.
Nothing was wrong at the factory. The wood was simply made for a different climate than the one it now lives in — and nobody wrote down which climate the furniture had to survive.
How we handle it
Before production, we agree the destination climate and the moisture content target that follows from it — typically 8–10% for temperate interiors, lower for heated dry climates. We check it at the factory with a meter on the actual stock, and again at packing.
Joinery is checked the same way: which joints, how they are cut, whether the frame can move without cracking. A mitred solid wood frame with no allowance for movement will fail, no matter how good the finish is.
Species claims get verified, not assumed. Where the specification names a species, we check that the stock matches — and where that species is restricted, we check the CITES or FSC documentation is real and current before anything is loaded.
Finish is agreed on a sealed physical sample, checked for adhesion and hardness, and inspected on the last carton as well as the first. A batch that changes gloss halfway through is a claim waiting to happen.
Questions specific to this line
What moisture content should I specify?
+It depends on where the piece will live. Temperate interiors with winter heating typically want 7–9%; humid tropical interiors 12–14%; air-conditioned hotels in the Gulf sit somewhere between. Tell us the destination and we will set the target with the factory — the number matters more than the range on a spec sheet.
How do you check the species is what was ordered?
+Visually on grain and figure, and by the paperwork where the species is controlled. For anything CITES-listed — rosewood, ebony, certain mahoganies — we confirm the permit is genuine and covers the actual shipment before production starts. Substituting a similar-looking species is the most common quiet problem in this category.
Can you handle hotel-grade contract requirements?
+Yes, including stated use cycles, fire performance for upholstery, and finish durability testing. These need to be written into the specification from the start — retrofitting a fire standard onto a finished design usually means changing the foam, the fabric or both.
What about KD versus assembled shipping?
+Knock-down saves a large amount of container space and is usually the right call for volume, but the connection detail becomes the weak point. We check the fittings and the instructions as part of inspection, because a well-made chair with a bad cam lock still fails on site.