Sustainability
We work with two woods: solid teak and suarwood. Both are responsibly sourced from Indonesia, both are made into pieces meant to last generations. Here is how we do it, and what we are still working on.
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Solid wood, no veneers
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Middlemen between maker and atelier
G5
Suarwood sustainability rating
01 · Teak
Our teak comes from Javanese plantations with long replanting cycles. Trees are harvested at maturity, then the plot is replanted. The wood that reaches our makers is dense, oil-rich, and naturally weather-resistant. No old-growth, no clear-cut, no tropical rainforest sources.
02 · Suarwood
Suarwood (Albizia saman) is a fast-growing tropical hardwood. It carries a G5 sustainability rating, the highest classification for managed harvest. Because the trees grow large diameters quickly, we get seamless live-edge slabs up to 440 cm with very little material waste per piece.
03 · Direct sourcing
We work directly with family ateliers on Java. No agents, no anonymous brokers. That means we know where every piece came from, who carved it, and that the carvers are paid fairly for the time the work takes.
04 · Logistics
Solid wood is heavy. We never air-freight a piece, ever. All international shipping moves by container ship, which keeps the carbon footprint per kilogram a fraction of air freight. EU deliveries go by insured pallet freight.
05 · Longevity
Solid hardwood does not become landfill in five years. Cared for, a teak animal or a suarwood table outlives the people who bought it. We design and build for that lifespan, with our Care guide written to support it.
06 · What we are still working on
We are not perfect. Our finishing oils are still mostly conventional, although we are testing plant-based alternatives. Carbon offsetting per shipment is on our roadmap, not in place yet. We will publish progress on this page as it lands, not as a promise.
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