Buy Rattan Furniture

To buy rattan furniture, people must pay attention on rattan furniture material and design. If rattan surface is coated with appropriate coating, rattan furniture will be last longer and easy to clean.

Some rattan furniture will not last longer if using low quality rattan raw material. You will see that rattan cane easy to break, sometimes rattan skin will be hairy, easy to be torn and peeled off.

High quality rattan will also get hairy, easy to be torn and peeled off. This is related to rattan furniture age. To overcome this problem, rattan needs to be coated with varnish or coating which natural texture of rattan still can be seen. Or to have contemporary furniture style, rattan furniture can be coated with color paint like white, blue, red, etc.

Rattan is very unique, its rod could reach more than 100 meter high although its diameter only as big as thumb. Rattan plant shape is not attractive, because its stem is covered by sharp thorns, but rattan rod is very tough and elastic.

 

Rattan Raw Material Buying Guide

Until now, 15 families of rattan is known in the world. Each rattan family still has its own types. 128 types of rattan really have good properties and good quality. Rotan Manau/Manau Rattan (Calamus Manan Miguel) as a member of Manau Rattan family, live in Sumatra & Kalimantan island. Best climate condition is wet climate and rattan will live very well on 50 m - 600 m height above sea level. Manau rattan has the biggest rod compared to other rattan type and many people search for it because of its best quality. Manau rattan rod has yellow color, it is long lasting, very tough and elastic, that's why it is very best to use as furniture frame. Other members of manau rattan are Rotan Manau Tikus , Rotan Manau Riang (Calamus Oxleyanus T et B), and Rotan Manau Padi (Calamus Marginantus Mart) . But their rods are not as big as Manau rattan's rod.

Some species have similar diameter with Manau rattan, but they have lower quality compare to Manau rattan.

Other best rattan is Rotan Pulut Merah (Calamus sp), live naturally in Kalimantan, especially in East Kalimantan. This type of rattan is best for cane work. The color is reddish grey. It has been use widely in handicraft industry and give beautiful and good result.

 

Rattan Chair Price Category

Many variation of rattan chair price can be found in the market. Generally, you will find three (3) different price category for rattan furniture i.e. low, medium and high price. It depends on rattan type, shape and its finishing. Best quality of rattan chair will have quite high price, until millions rupiahs.

Customers should be careful in choosing and differentiate rattan furniture quality.

Beside local market, international market is widely open for rattan furniture. Indonesian furniture is known to have good quality rattan furniture in many countries in the world. Destination countries for rattan furniture market include France, Italy, Germany, Netherland, Spain, Romania, Russia, United States, etc.

 

Rattan Chair Buying Guide

Chair function beside as sitting place, also as social symbol, and aesthetics equipment or home interior and exterior tools.

When buying rattan chair, several things below need to be considered:

Rattan type

Variation of rattan material will give various results on rattan chair. Best rattan raw material will give high value for rattan chair.

The shape

The uniqueness and beauty of rattan chair and its variation are determined by rattan's raw material characteristic that show natural fibers, small pores, cylindrical round shape, natural color, and formation elasticity which is very flexible, and also other supporting raw materials such as water plant, pandanus, and abaca banana stem. This combination make rattan chair design has many variations which rely on its beauty shape. When use as interior, rattan chair always give natural nuance in your room.

Pleasure/Comfortable Seating

Beside shape, pleasure / comfortable seating is essential in choosing of rattan chair. Comfort ability on wicker rattan chair most determined by ergonomic aspect, to be appropriated with human body anatomy when someone sit. Sitting posture, sitting culture, and sitting position of people become a main base in determining shape flexibility and measurement and chair dimension that Anthropometry.

Seat height, support height, seat slope degree, width and length of seat righteously become principal consideration in choosing a chair.

Rattan Chair Color Finishing

Rattan chair appearance is not only from its shape and beauty wicker, but color finishing also give contribution to its beauty. You can choose many variation of color such as natural color, darker color, fancy color, and water based glaze. Natural color finishing will make rattan fibers appearance more natural. White yellowish or yellow brownish color will appear with its natural beauty. Darker color is resulted when stain is used in color finishing. Fancy color will give color effect such as pastel color, metallic effect, etc. Water based glazed will give antique or classic impression.