Wooden furniture makes victorious comeback
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Monira Munni
Wooden furniture made a victorious return to the country's fast booming furniture landscape due to their quality and innovative design alluring crowd in the annual ninth national furniture fair.
A total of 78 leading furniture manufacturers took part in the six-day exhibition that ended Saturday, showcasing a new range of products, growing strength in designs and craftsmanship that catered to the changing taste of consumers.
"We got huge demand for wooden furniture compared to laminated board due to its design and natural colour," Moinur Rahman Khan, senior executive (Sales) told the FE.
Customers now prefer wooden furniture because of their quality, longevity and designs, he added.
Though wooden furniture is costly, customers are buying the products because now they have become more aware of their durability, quality and designs, he said.
Organisers said unlike previous fairs, furniture made of solid wood and its fusion with iron works, locally grown cane and medium-density fibre (MDF) boards have occupied good spots in the fair.
The local companies have woken up to the reality that artificial fibres such as MDF have their limitations. Products made of solid wood or their look-alikes are the latest fashion, they added.
The main objective of this year's fair is to create market awareness and demand both nationally and globally for the high-quality Bangladeshi furniture with the slogan "Amar Desh Amar Asha, Deshiyo Furniture e Sajabo Basha", they added.
"Simple but the gorgeous look of our furniture drew a huge crowd to the fair," Muhammad Hossain Mukta, assistant manager (Sales) of Navana Furniture, said.
"Moreover we sold furniture at a minimum price which also brought the customers to our pavilion," Mr Mukta added.
"Our sales were quite good," Sufia Khatun, assistant general manager of Akhtar Furnishers, a leading local brand that also displayed an array of office and household furniture made of solid wood, said.
"The customers liked our new items made of solid wood like teak, mahogany and MDF," she said adding that the visitors mainly bought bedroom and sofa sets, divan and study table.
Wooden furniture made a victorious return to the country's fast booming furniture landscape due to their quality and innovative design alluring crowd in the annual ninth national furniture fair.
A total of 78 leading furniture manufacturers took part in the six-day exhibition that ended Saturday, showcasing a new range of products, growing strength in designs and craftsmanship that catered to the changing taste of consumers.
"We got huge demand for wooden furniture compared to laminated board due to its design and natural colour," Moinur Rahman Khan, senior executive (Sales) told the FE.
Customers now prefer wooden furniture because of their quality, longevity and designs, he added.
Though wooden furniture is costly, customers are buying the products because now they have become more aware of their durability, quality and designs, he said.
Organisers said unlike previous fairs, furniture made of solid wood and its fusion with iron works, locally grown cane and medium-density fibre (MDF) boards have occupied good spots in the fair.
The local companies have woken up to the reality that artificial fibres such as MDF have their limitations. Products made of solid wood or their look-alikes are the latest fashion, they added.
The main objective of this year's fair is to create market awareness and demand both nationally and globally for the high-quality Bangladeshi furniture with the slogan "Amar Desh Amar Asha, Deshiyo Furniture e Sajabo Basha", they added.
"Simple but the gorgeous look of our furniture drew a huge crowd to the fair," Muhammad Hossain Mukta, assistant manager (Sales) of Navana Furniture, said.
"Moreover we sold furniture at a minimum price which also brought the customers to our pavilion," Mr Mukta added.
"Our sales were quite good," Sufia Khatun, assistant general manager of Akhtar Furnishers, a leading local brand that also displayed an array of office and household furniture made of solid wood, said.
"The customers liked our new items made of solid wood like teak, mahogany and MDF," she said adding that the visitors mainly bought bedroom and sofa sets, divan and study table.