From shoplot to factory floor
The first workshop was a rented shoplot off Jalan Kapar with two benches, a table saw and a borrowed van for deliveries. The first commission was a meranti bookshelf for a retired teacher in Taman Desa; she still sends us photographs of it every Hari Raya.
Word travelled the way it does in KL — through renovations. An interior designer noticed our carcass work in a client’s condo and asked who built it. Within two years we were the quiet workshop behind projects for several design studios, hotels and a government library, while keeping half our schedule for homeowners who walked in with nothing but a sketch on graph paper.
In 2017 we moved to our current premises in Bangsar: a proper factory floor with a spray room, veneer press and enough ceiling height to dry-assemble a double-storey feature wall before it ever leaves the building. That dry-assembly habit is why our installations rarely take more than a day or two — the furniture has already stood up once, in the workshop.
What we believe about furniture
We believe furniture should be built for the person who will live with it, in the space it has to live in. We believe a written quotation should hold, that a delivery date is a promise, and that a carpenter who cuts a joint should be proud enough to sign the inside of the carcass — ours do.
And we believe in Malaysian timber. The workshop is named after meranti, the hardwood most of us grew up around, and we source it — along with nyatoh and rubberwood — from certified Peninsular suppliers wherever the design allows.
