Our Story

Our mission is to transform your home with timeless and sustainable
rattan furniture that enables reforestation, atmospheric carbon reduction and the elimination of waste from fast furniture

What Drives Us

Furniture must be beautiful and timeless

Unlike mass-produced fast furniture, everything we make is designed to be loved for generations.  

Natural is best

Unlike plastic and melamine furniture, what we make shouldn’t be your grandkid’s grandkids problem to solve. At the endof a hopefully very long life, our rattan furniture can be chipped and returned to nourish the soil.

Be Unwasteful

Finally, none of our packaging contains plastic, and we only use the minimum amount of packaging to ensure your furniture arrives in perfect condition. Even though rattan is a sustainable crop, we don’t want to harvest more than we have to, and for that reason we make bigger items like beds and wardrobes to order.

Fair Value

Don’t be fooled, someone somewhere is paying the price of fast furniture, whether that’s wages and working conditions or environmental damage.  Our artisans are incredibly skilled, and we believe in looking after them, their families and their environment in just the same way as we would want to look after our own.

Schanell | Founder
Flip the switch

When we moved into our home, I wanted to design a beautiful space that brought me joy to live in. But there was a problem. I couldn’t afford expensive designer-label furniture, and I didn’t want to buy cheap fast-furniture I knew we’d be replacing in a few years. Unlike designer furniture, there’s really no after-market for flat packs and chipboard furniture, so the vast majority just ends up rotting in landfill

Looking around our home it dawned on me that while it was reasonably easy to find smaller pieces that were sustainably made, bigger items like beds & tables were harder to find, often made of slow-growing hardwood.

Since houses can be built 25X faster than even a fast-growing pine tree can grow, this just didn’t seem sustainable to
me. 

"One way or another, that meant more trees would be cut down to furnish my home"

In the natural world, trees are probably the best resource for capturing and locking up carbon from the atmosphere. Harvesting them to make tables, even from managed forests, seems at odds with the global necessity to battle climate change.

But what if we could rethink the way furniture is made?  Big items like beds, tables and wardrobes can lock up a lot of carbon.  Was it possible to turn furniture into an engine room for climate repair?

What are be doing about it?

We're flipping the switch on furniture production. Instead of less trees and more carbon, we want to build a model that leaves behind more trees and less carbon.

Our mission is to transform your home with timeless and sustainable rattan furniture that enables reforestation, atmospheric carbon reduction and the elimination of waste from fast furniture

Rattan is made from the fast-growing rattan vine, so you’ll know no trees are cut in the production of your furniture

We've Partnered With Ecologi

Our Big Goal:

By 2027 the production of Beach & Wood rattan furniture and furnishings will have enabled the replanting of 50,000 trees across endangered rainforest

Every item you order plants a tree. The bigger the item, the more trees we plant!

With your help, we have already planted 5,781 trees.

View Our Trees Here