Wood Furniture Design

Established in 1999, AQSA International formerly known as Indonesia Antique or IndoAntique. It has grown into a well-established manufacturer and exporter company with in-depth knowledge of indoor wooden furniture. On its development Indonesia Antique enlarge the scope of business into group of companies under the name of ‘AQSA International’ which is divided into Group of AQSA Living. AQSA Living includes Indonesia Antique, Aquila, and Qabana.

AQSA Living is aware that furniture is essential in our daily lives. At the same time, it represents lifestyles. Thus, AQSA Living believe, furniture should be well-designed and equipped to deal with the growing needs of consumers. The final goal for this competition is not only for the purpose of being winning a prize but also to introduce fresh ideas in terms of design into the furniture industry. AQSA Living strongly believe that designs must keep up with the changing society and environment and should express new relationships between human beings and their lives, between human beings and furniture as well as between human beings and the environment. We are certain that designs should contribute to the creation of a better life and society.

We are looking forward to see your inspirational designs which will enable us to realize our dream.

Competition Objectives:

1. To encourage talented and capable new designers and also supporting ideas and creations in furniture designs.
2. To expand the furniture market through innovative designs.
3. To strengthen Indonesia furniture product and business competitiveness, particularly on the small scale entrepreneurs.

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People’s concern recently is about the rise of climate change that gives environmental effect to the earth existence. There are plenty of causes that make the climate changes. But many scholars said that deforestation as one big cause of the raising on global climate.

Wood as main forestry products is getting more demanding in the furniture and building material market today. Hence, wood furniture manufacturers try to meet the market by supply a range of wide collections of wood as furniture. As the result, flood, land slide, less fresh air is the people problems that they are facing now.

As time goes by, regarding to deforestation, people start to move green by using the recycle material for product as possible as they can. By recycling, they hope to achieve a friendly environment for many years to come.

People started to recycle water, plastics, metal and even for furniture especially for wood. Instead of cutting productive trees, they figure another way out to handle the market of wood furniture by using the recycled one.

Reclaimed defined as the wood came from demolishing and abandoned site, old rail road, deck, or ship building. Creatively they re-new them as attractive reclaimed wood furniture which makes them relief by preserving the nature.

The ecology sound practice on wood furniture and art is applied by manufacturer to minimize the issue comes up. Today, outdoor, indoor or office furniture are produced varied in form of benches, lounges, bed frame and others. Those create another touch of natural, warmth, and beauty to living.

The comfort and beauty of rooms is can be seen from the home décor including furniture. It feels incomplete if forgot o fill out final touch of the right furniture as function and aesthetic. That is what also happened to bedroom, a room for getting relaxed and rest after long hours of work.

There are bedroom furniture collections perfectly to furnish in, e.g.: headboard, bedside, dresser, wardrobe/armoire, chest, vanity, shoes rack and trunk in order to create a style of bedroom that everybody want. Each item complements each other in function and detail. For minimalist home design, the contemporary furniture for bedroom is the perfect choice. Likewise for classic and colonial furniture match with country style design.

The right arrangement of furniture in the bedroom plays an important role in setting of homeowner moods. The comfort environment, once again, can lift the spirit and energy as the opposite of dull atmosphere that can make feel awful. In a nutshell, it can beautify the living space beyond the expectation.

Design explores solution both ergonomics and anthropometric aspect. Visually attractive is the design production besides functions. Furniture design considers intended usage, ergonomics, anthropometric, as well as non-ergonomic functional requirements such as size, stack ability, weight, durability, and safety.

Furniture designer develop and prepare furniture for manufacture which in turn will be used a lot of people. The process of furniture begins from the design, production, distribution and usage. A good design is concert with ergonomic aspect. Ergonomics is employed to fulfill the two goals of health and productivity. It is relevant in the design of such things as safe furniture and easy-to-use interfaces to machines.

Furthermore, in the aspect of anthropometric furniture must design relevant with human body size and shape. Whatever your furniture designs either antique or contemporary furniture should be comfort and healthy. Furniture designer require the specific knowledge of ergonomic and anthropometric to produce optimum design of a furniture item. They consider both functional and aesthetic aspects and pay particular attention to ergonomics, those factors that relate to ease of use and human behavior.

Have you ever seen a movie where there was a secret chamber for the character to do or put something in privately? The secret door usually opened with a camouflage so that they appear to part of wall, bookcase, and architectural feature such as a fireplace or mirror. If the secret entrance behind the bookcase or bookshelf, a certain book on a bookshelf serves as the hidden trigger for the mechanism.

It is always a large interior to use as one of the secret entrance, such as the bookcase that covered the entrance to Anne Frank’s secret room. Anna Frank was a child who exhaled from Germany to Amsterdam, Netherlands in order to escape from the national power at that time. She has ever hidden in a hidden place inside of her apartment where the entrance was covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained discovered before she eventually betrayed and went to concentration camp. Then she became famous in the world after her diary about the life she experienced has been published.

The subsistence of secret entrance through interior or furniture continues out side the real fact. In pop culture or fiction, it was captured in a colossal movie, the Young Frankenstein. There was a sequence of when Doctor Frankenstein wanted to go into his private laboratory, he triggered a candle on his bookcase to open the entrance. It is another proof that secret room is needed a secret entrance from large furniture or other feature.

Those mentioned above are examples of secret room in real life and fiction. The uniqueness of what is portrayed is being adapted by some people today. They build their own mysterious door at home to have the exclusivity of the room. Bookshelf build into the wall might difficult to carry out but there must be ways to start one.

Time after time, the style of furniture and home design changed. It also happened to the furniture people chose, they tend to pick contemporary furniture or modern one of style. It is a little bit tricky to make a secret door where the furniture has sleek line, so it surely has to make it more carefully. If you still dream of having secret part in your house, you can make that happened right here right now!

Wooden house in colonial style were common seen in United State. This type of home was associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period between about 1600 through 1850, which refers to the colonial period in United State including First Period English, French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch, German Colonial and Georgian Colonial. .

The colonial style architecture is found from coast to coast and from north to south in the United States. This type of home has several identifying features such as the architecture, which is very symmetrical and square, it is similar to salt box style wooden house, which has two-stories high home. Nevertheless, colonial homes tend to center around the fireplace, with either one chimney in the center of a home, or commonly two chimneys at either end of the home. The other feature is narrow side windows flanking the front door were have different appearance on each style. Generally, there is decorative crown above front door that enhances the appearance of the house.

As mentioned before the colonial style was built in the colonial period thus there are different types of Colonial architecture stemming from the different cultures that developed their communities. Among the different styles of Colonial architecture are Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, German Colonial and Georgian Colonial. For several types like the typical Dutch colonial were built in stone and has an overhang in front, often covering a porch and others type like salt box style were built with wood siding and a flat front. However, no matter the style of Colonial architecture, the common trait of Colonial homes is the simplicity and symmetry of the architecture.

The colonial style home has had a great influence on American architecture, and can still be seen reproduced today across the United States. The simple, symmetrical character of Colonial architecture is classic of an American style.