Where your furniture begins.

Founded by Gede, a master craftsman who spent more than a decade controlling export production quality for Japanese, Australian and French buyers before building his own workshop in Kerobokan in 2015.

Gede is fifty-three and comes from Gitgit Village in North Bali, where woodworking came to him through his father. Wood has been part of his life from the start. But the path to his own atelier ran through more than a decade inside the export furniture trade, on the side that decides whether a piece ships or gets sent back.

His training began under a Filipino master craftsman at a trading company, where he was promoted into quality control. From there he spent four and a half years as Quality Controller for a Japanese buying agent, then held the same role for a villa developer. An Australian company brought him on as buying agent and quality controller. He closed this chapter as Assistant Director for a French import-export company, a position he held for six years.

That sequence is the point. For more than ten years, Gede was the person buyers in Japan, Australia and France trusted to judge whether export production met their standard. He learned the trade not as a maker first, but as the final check between a workshop and a container bound overseas.

In 2015 he founded his own atelier in Kerobokan. Large operations optimise for volume. The atelier was founded for the opposite: a level of attention to detail that high-volume production cannot sustain, direct communication with the people who commission the work, and craft, flexibility and quality placed ahead of throughput.

He no longer works alone. His son Putu, a civil engineering graduate, works alongside him in the workshop and in client communication.

The workshop's view of the work is unhurried. Wood teaches patience, and quality cannot be rushed. A piece is built to outlast trends and to serve families for generations, not to satisfy a single season.

The atelier brings together thirty-five people, the head craftsman included. The work centres on solid teak: joinery, bespoke pieces and a premium finish, every item built to the specification of the project it is made for rather than pulled from a fixed catalogue.

What sets the output apart is the discipline Gede carried over from his years in export quality control. Each piece is inspected at every stage of production, not only at the end. Nothing moves to the next bench until it has passed the one before, the same standard he once enforced for buyers overseas.