Hoe beter we de unieke kenmerken van hout en zijn bron begrijpen, hoe beter we kunnen begrijpen hoeveel warmte en schoonheid het ons in ons dagelijks leven kan brengen. Elk stuk houten meubel is een unieke meesterwerk van ontwerp en textuur, omdat elk stuk hout een unieke vlammetjespatronen heeft. Er zijn verschillende soorten hout en het zal veel passie en geduld kosten om alle soorten hout ter wereld te ontdekken.
To simplify it, the classification of wood is generally divided into two groups;zachte houtsoortenhoutsoort.
Zachtboomwordt algemeen geproduceerd door kruinenbomen terwijlHardwoodBijnaam: hout, van loofbossen.
“Hoe weet ik of het een Zachtboom is?”
Softwoodis produced from coniferous or evergreen trees. Evergreen trees do not lose its leaves annually like hardwood does as coniferous trees have needles and not leaves. Conifers are fast growing tress and can take 20 to 30 years to mature. Any timber that comes from coniferous tress is open grain. Open grain means it is not as durable as hardwood. Some softwood trees are used for paper production. Paper is usually made of pine wood, which is a type of softwood. There are many types of softwood used in the production of furniture as well, including pine.
“Hoe weet ik of het Hardwood is?”
Houtsoortis mainly produced from low growing trees. Hardwood timber is close-grained, therefore is best suited to make furniture. Close-grained wood is known to be strong and does not easily split. Hardwood trees can also take up to 100 years to fully mature. It’s no wonder the price of hardwood timber in the market is expensive! As we can see, there are furniture industries that use hardwood as their base. In KIAN, we commonly use hard wood to make our furniture i.e ash, beech, oak, balau, rubberwood and nyatoh. In fact, KIAN first began manufacturing tabletops using rubberwood. Rubberwood is known as an environmentally friendly and inexpensive choice of wood as it makes use of rubber trees that have already served its useful function of producing latex.
Bekijk enkele van onze hardhouttimmerproducten hieronder:
Gajah Chair with solid oak legs
Dana Stoel met gestileerde houten kader
Hank stoel met rubberhouten frame
