Indonesian furniture

Go searching "Indonesian furniture" on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other engines, you will find irrelevant results. Almost all the search results are the company website of the European antique furniture reproduction and teak garden furniture manufacturer.


The facts that Indonesia consists of various ethnics is hidden somewhere on the last bytes of the search engines data center. Any ethnic in Indonesia has it own carving patterns and architectural style. The Betawi ethnic on west Java has simplicity in elegant shape, whilst the Javanese on central Java has it elaborate carving on sturdiness.

In addition to the ethnic furniture, Indonesia also has a colonial-style furniture. This colonial style developed during the Dutch and English colonization. The Dutch brought the architectural style, while the English brought the regency to interior style that made colonial furniture in Indonesia similar to Indian furniture style.

The Madura sofa features an elaborate carving is one of the colonial furniture that popular in Indonesia. The sofa seat and backrest hand-woven with rattan skin using hole-to-hole traditional strand caning.

The armchair of the Madura seating set features a simpler carving on it thick solid wood frames. The chair seat and backrest woven with rattan skin, supported by in-curved legs ended with eagle claws feet on the floor.

The Betawi ethnic furniture comes with plain frames but in an elegant shape with exaggerated curves. The barrel bench is one of the most popular furniture piece in west Java.