FurnArt is a company that prides itself on quality service,
providing furniture, accessories and artworks to enhance
any room or outdoor setting. We offer you, our client/customer
opportunity to choose from not one but five companies within
a single catalogue/brochure, giving a much bigger and varied
choice. Thus, making your job that much easier. Whether
you need to furnish a block of apartments, a hotel or other
business establishments such as bars and restaurants or
even a development of private villas, FurnArt can
offer you a solution to all your furniture needs.
MATERIALS
Our
manufacturers use a combination of indigenous and modern
materials that produce beautifully crafted, timeless pieces
of furniture…simple, sensual curves and waves that
bring about a relaxed pleasing style. They are incorporating
modern technology with local craftsmanship, molding natural
materials into impressive works of art that are as beautiful
as practical.
Among
the four main materials, bamboo and rattan commodity both
belong to non-wood forest products. These species require
little attention during the growing/production cycle. Both
plants occupy much the same ecological niche as trees and
are suitable for agro-forestry and healthy ecosystems. The
versatility of both species as raw material for the manufacture
of strong and sturdy furniture, handicrafts, and novelty
items outmatches most tree species. They have gained more
importance as nature's substitute for the old and endangered
rainforest hardwoods. It is the single most important cluster
of non-timber forest products.
With
the application of new materials into furniture making,
we hope to contribute to the environment in its quest to
maintain and rebuild the rainforests. At the same time respecting
the international logging laws, but not sacrificing the
quality and beauty of our furniture products.
The four main local materials are:
Abaca
- has been cultivated since the 16th century, is a plant
that closely resembles the common Banana plant and is the
equivalent of Hemp. The long fibers that are very durable
are taken from the large leaves, the coarser ones being
used for such things as rope and the fine ones for fabrics
& furnishings. Unattractive in nature beautiful/handsome
in design.
Coconut
- the coconut palm tree grows in Africa, Asia, Latin America,
and the Pacific region and areas near seas where the roots
can find moisture. Coconuts have supplied some families
from the Pacific with shelter, food, drinks, and many of
their other needs. Their versatility has expanded to the
manufacture of mats, baskets, and hats made out of the leaves
and husks. Recently, with designers' ingenuity and the search
for new raw materials, the coconut tree has now gained popularity
in the furniture industry.
Bamboo - the "friend
of the people" in China, the "wood of the poor"
in India and "brother" in Vietnam, it is the largest
of the grass family and can reach up to lengths of a hundred
feet. Known for its strength, this grass is one of the quickest
growing plants on earth, ready to harvest in just a year
while the average tree can take decades to produce the same
amount of material. Besides its appealing looks, the use
of bamboo also conserves temperate and tropical forests
as a wonderful substitute for hardwood. New designs have
avoided the same bamboo look that has been around for the
last 20 years, displaying modern day style with an ethnic
taste.
Rattan - belonging to
the palm family, found in the rainforests, monsoon savannahs
and even the foothills of the Himalayas, rattan has been
used through the centuries in many ways. Rattan leaves have
long, whip-like barbed tips by which the plant climbs to
the tops of trees. From its extraordinary length stem (often
several hundred feet) is obtained the rattan cane, a slender,
flexible tough cane of uniform diameter that is split for
wickerwork, baskets, and furnishings.
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