Category: Sourcing Guide

Small apartments do not need less furniture. They need furniture that does more than one job, and a layout that leaves the floor as open as possible. Those two ideas…

Custom furniture has a reputation for being slow and expensive. Sometimes that is true. Often it is not, and the difference comes down to whether the item is one where…

Furniture in a rental works harder than furniture in a family home. Different people use it every few days, nobody treats it as their own, and the person who has…

Ask three factories how many kitchens fit in a forty foot container and you’ll get three different answers. That isn’t evasion. The real variable isn’t cubic metres, it’s the packing…

A toilet gets judged twice. Once in the showroom, on looks. Then again years later, on whether the glaze still shines and the flush still clears. Testing and paperwork fill…

A private label tile range needs more than a tile design. The product, the box, the display board and the pallet labels all have to match the brand and the…

An hour southwest of Guangzhou the office towers thin out and the truck traffic changes. Flatbeds stacked with spring units. Vans crammed with foam blocks under stretch film. This is…

Every sofa hides its most important parts under the fabric. The frame, the springs, the webbing and the foam decide how the thing feels in year three, and all four…

Put two mesh task chairs side by side in a Foshan showroom and a photograph can’t tell them apart, while the invoices sit a long way apart. The gap isn’t…