Indonesian Furniture Style - Traditional and Modern

Japanese and Oriental have been people choice as the number one furniture style with each characteristics attached. In general, Japanese furniture trademark designs features simple, clean, often boxy lines. Oriental furniture has it's own style with the bold painted designs which often feature reds, gold and black. Oriental furniture, typically made of rosewood, is heavily lacquered to cover skillfully painted scenes.

Recently, European and North American people have switched the perspective of furniture style from the Far East origin to South East furniture style. It happened as they were looking for fresh and kick off design and the craftsmanship. This somewhat called a new trend has been started from many years ago and ongoing process.

The South Asia furniture is different from the Oriental or Japan style. Some say that Southeast Asian Furniture, for this case is Indonesia, is considered somewhat exotic. Some people have made a statement that Indonesian furniture style is the most influential for the world of industry. Indonesian wood furniture design is divided into traditional and modern one. Both are way different but each has individual uniqueness.

Traditional Indonesian furniture style features hand carved designs from bold, darkly stained woods. Bali, the most popular island in Indonesia, has been noticeable worldwide as the most skilled wood furniture artisan. Commonly made of teak and mahogany, the piece of furniture is guarantee for last for centuries.

Apart from Bali, Indonesian furniture manufacturers also created contemporary furniture with the modern designs with the Asian flair. There is not any full ornament applied in furniture produced like Oriental furniture usually has. Despite of its modern design, it does still have the look of warm, comfortable, and express natural beauty towards Mother Nature. It surely the main unchangeable part of furniture creation from this South East Asian tropical archipelago country.