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16/02/21
Introducing Kayu Home for sustainable interiors from around the world
Kayu Home
Oriental furniture specialist Shimu has announced the launch of a new interiors brand with a strong emphasis on furniture and homewares made from sustainable and reclaimed materials and with a global focus.
Kayu Home offers the best of sustainable interiors from around the world, with a wide range of solid wood furniture, rugs and homewares in a natural, stripped back look that blends well into both modern and traditional homes. The company works directly with small furniture workshops in Indonesia, India and China, using reclaimed woods including elm, poplar and teak that are salvaged from disused and dismantled houses and industrial buildings.
Along with newly made furniture, Kayu Home also offers a large collection of vintage and antique pieces sourced from China and India, and has plans to extend its vintage range to include items from elsewhere in Asia and Europe.
The new collection is available to order online at www.kayuhome.co.uk and a selection from the range can be viewed at the company's showroom in West Yorkshire.
Says director James Cottrell, "For a long time I have wanted to offer a wider selection of the beautifully made furniture and decorative homewares that I've seen on my travels around Asia that don't fit easily into the distinctively oriental Shimu 'look'. Kayu Home is the result - a carefully curated selection to bring a pure, natural, highly tactile and individual style to your home while caring for the planet's precious resources."
Along with beautifully crafted furniture and antiques, visitors to the new website or showroom will find a huge array of accessories for the home that the company imports direct or sources from ethical suppliers that share its values, and that perfectly complement the natural, tactile character of the furniture.
07/11/19
Celebrate Chinese New Year in Style with furniture, antiques and gifts from Shimu
Shimu
Chinese New Year arrives on the 25th January, with celebrations taking place in London and amongst Chinese communities across the UK well into February. 2020 sees us enter the Year of the Rat - the first animal in the Chinese zodiac. Those born under the Year of the Rat are thought to be alert to possibilities, highly adaptable and with excellent instincts, making them high achievers in the world of business.
In China the New Year is an important time for families to gather, with a dinner held on New Year's Eve to start the fesitivities. At the stroke of midnight firecrackers and fireworks are set off to scare away any evil spirits and to welcome in the new year. Gifts and money in red envelopes are given to children as a wish for a safe, peaceful and prosperous year ahead.
At the end of the holiday period the Lantern Festival is held, with the Chinese hanging lanterns around their homes, towns and cities as a wish for a bright future. Red is used to symbolise good fortune, while gold stands for wealth and prosperity.
As the leading UK specialist in Chinese antique and oriental furniture, Shimu offers a huge array of products to bring a hint of the orient to your home. Our red and gold antique and reproduction cabinets are decorated with traditional designs, perfectly complemented by silk gold tassels, oriental rugs and other homewares imported from the East.
You'll find our full selection online, from Chinese lanterns to gift boxes, lighting, furniture and antiques that bring a real wow factor to any interior.
