ajisaka

Our furniture product using material that comes from broken-down old houses or other sources such as rice barns, school buildings, bridges, cow/buffalo sheds, railway sleepers, ships or other sources that made of teakwood and then to be broken-down as teak component material. These materials are to be used as main material in our furniture production.

The main style or design of our product that we adapt is colonial style, which was a European furniture style in the era of colonialism. To get to know more of this kind of furniture style please visits our sites.

Our furniture products are base mainly on handmade production. In a term of handmade, what we mean is a production process whose done mostly by human (carpenters, craftsmen), all tools can be said in the level of traditional even if it already use electricity (not purely by human power), all furniture production phase also adapted from traditional process in building the furniture (the process still inline with how our ancestors build their furniture as their own utensils), all indirect material we devised are from material that will not harm the environment, and all hardware (handles, keys, hinges, dll) also devised to be made with handmade basis.

We categorize our carpenter’s tools as in traditional level because they only the continuation of the same tools as our ancestors used in the past long ago. For example, a jack-plane tool is used to level the surface of a plank, in old ways the tool is made of woods with a steel or iron chisel so it can be plane out on wood to make a smooth and level surface. The tool can be used also to taper down the width of a plank; this can be done by leveling the chisel that will eat-out the wood. Nowadays, a jack-plane is added with some electricity and a small machine modification, we call this tool as hand-planer. The function and utility of this tool is still the same, it still utilized human power (even though, diminished by the small machine and electricity).

Indirect material such as glue and the material use for finishing we devise our best to avoid material that can harm environment. We always first consult to our buyer regarding the application of finishing material to the furniture, if they have a little objection we will search for the subtitle material.

We mainly use hardware such as hinges, handles, etc., that made from brass and was specially ordered from Pati-Juwana, a place for brass craftmen. These craftmen produce their goods also by handmade basis. It make easy for us to order any design to fulfill some buyers demand with special hardware.

The system of production process is very much alike with what our ancestors do ages ago. The different is only at professionalism. Long ago, if the people needs some furniture or utensil they will made them by their self. It went along with the making of furniture. If a man made a good furniture (so they call him a carpenter), his neighbors will ask him if he can make the table again. Because mostly what they do for a living was farmer, he would make the table in his spare time only. Once the table is finish it will last very long, remembers Dingklik Table, this teak furniture will be inherited by, even, his great-grand children for the durability of teakwood. While nowadays, there is a small chance a carpenter will double his job by doing his rice yard also. The professionalism can be expected.

For custom design concept, what we mean by that are any design that did not follow our standard style (colonial) or sizes, this mainly to fulfill the interior design from our buyer whose had been asked by their customer to make special furniture according to the sizes of their room. We are very proud with this custom of product concept because, in our opinion, this will beat our competitor down, especially product from China. We only have minimal order for container base. We do not have minimal order for a single product (container base purchase order). On the contrary, machinery or mass production will have to go through complicated process to adjust all the machine for producing one component of furniture (a single furniture has at least ten components). It will not be logical to order one custom table to a furniture manufacturer (machinery), reaching competitive price for that one table is impossible.

For handmade basis furniture production (made by our skilled carpenters with traditional manner), a buyer can afford to order one table with some special design from their end-user without any limitation from minimal order rule. The order can be put anywhere on any going purchase order without the obligation to buy a whole container of special tables.
For us, the design from custom concept will enrich our lines of furniture. And if the owner of the design permit us, we will proudly present them to our other buyers, at least if permited, we can sell them in other country. Reciprocal advantages.

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