Asias hidden gem: Indonesian woods

When you think about home furniture then a few different styles spring to mind. Deep woods of Asia are very popular, and that’s because they look good in almost every home. Dark woods, especially with brickwork, give a room a warm, and homely feel, and the materials extremely strong and hard wearing, even for homes with children. There’s a texture to a piece of wooden furniture, like a dining room table, or a coffee table, like no other material, and that’s why you find wooden furniture in so many homes.
If Indian furniture is populist, then furniture from Indonesia is for the specialist. Indonesian furniture is still not widely on sale, in fact many pieces are likely to be labelled as coming from India, but if you can find a retailer who specialises in furniture from this region then you’ll be in for a treat. There’s a wide range of woods that are forested in Indonesia, and a great tradition in working with this type of material, so that the colours, shadings, and depths, of the wood are almost endless.
Tangkoko market ethically sourced wood furniture, which means that the producers are treat in a fair way, with the local village benefitting from their work. It’s now hugely important to consumers, as there is an better knowledge of how buying furniture can affect the people that produce it. Ethically Indonesian furniture can be beautiful, but it can also give you peace of mind as you’re supporting the community that make it.
There’s more to purchasing a piece of furniture as items take up a lot of space on a truck which in turn burns fuel. Which is why the delivery costs from most furniture retailers is so expensive , and with rising fuel prices which leads to an impact on the environment before you get the furniture.
One of the best ways to counter this is to carbon offset the delivery, which means that the retailer calculates the amount of carbon used by the delivery vehicle, and then this is ‘replaced’, by the purchasing trees on your behalf. There’s often wrapping that comes with wooden furniture, so Tangkoko will take this away too ( after moving the furniture in to the room of your choice), which means that your new sourced, furniture is as kind to the environment as you can get.

Tangkoko is an ethical furniture retailer, which sells wooden furniture sourced from Indonesian.

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