Furniture from India

Furniture from India to create a unique atmosphere.

If you want to create a special, unique atmosphere in your home, you can buy beautifully carved furniture from India. The India woodwork artisans have an extraordinary skill and carve detailed works with great precision. Wooden furniture from India can also have ironwork features such as grilles, studs and decorative edge-work.

The most common wood for furniture from India is sheesham plantation wood from North India. Mango wood is also used a lot because it’s affordable and of good quality. Other types of wood that are used for furniture and other woodworks are teak, aromatic sandalwood, sheesham, walnut, fruit trees and Himalayan cedar from the north.

The pitara is a traditional piece of furniture from India that generally has a quite old and rustic appearance, sometimes with a distress painted finish. It’s a carved wooden chest on legs with small doors on the front of the chest that deter, according to the folk stories, thieves from stealing a lot of items from the chest in one time.

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