It includes marble top tables, elegant chairs with woven rattan seats, carved benches for the waiting rooms outside business and government offices, massive desks, smaller, inlaid writing desks, elaborately carved and painted ceremonial wedding beds with secret compartments for valuables. These pieces are for people who love to live with the bold colors of village art and the creative charm of small imperfections. The woods are local tropical hardwoods. Joints are dovetailed. All the detail carving is done by hand.
Colors are bright blues, greens, reds and yellows with white for accent.
Islam discourages the use of human and animal form. This has encouraged the creation of bold, interlocking floral and geometric designs. It is rare now to find older examples of the more popular types of furniture in Indonesia itself. The workshops are hand-crafting reproductions based on traditional styles. All these newer pieces are still made by hand with the customary Indonesian attention to decorative detail.