We use solid rosewood and teak imported from Myanmar, Thailand and northern Vietnam. This method of finishing, says Lui, provides more effective protection than the lacquer used by most contemporary furniture manufacturers. Actin has its own design team that creates the company's own traditional Chinese-style line of furniture. To meet the demands of its customers, mainly on the US East Coast and in Taiwan, the designers are also skilled in the construction of early American, French and Japanese styles. The company requires a minimum order of one 20-foot container, which can comprise a variety of styles.
Delivery takes about eight weeks.
Pacific Century Resources Ltd has been collecting antique furniture from across the Chinese mainland since 1989. Each piece is brought to the company's warehouse in Zhongshan, in Guangdong Province on the Chinese mainland, where it is dismantled, cleaned and refinished according to clients' specifications. Assistant general manager Andy Yung says the market for antique Chinese furniture has picked up considerably in the past 12 months. I think there has been a sudden realization that handmade solid-wood furniture has a real value. Customers, especially in the US, are starting to consider such pieces as art, rather than furniture.