Sector
Residential and contract furniture.
Sourced to a specification, not selected from a catalogue.
Furniture is where origin substitution is easiest to get wrong, because two items can look identical and behave differently after a year of use.
What has to be verified
Frame construction, joinery method, foam density and fabric rub count. These are the attributes that determine whether a piece survives contract use, and they are the ones most often absent from a supplier's own description.
Origins we use
Vietnam for upholstered and case goods, Indonesia for solid wood, India for metal frames. Capacity is verified before the order rather than assumed from a catalogue.
Packaging is part of the specification
Furniture damaged in transit is furniture you cannot sell. Carton construction and corner protection are specified and checked, because a saving on packaging is usually spent twice over on replacements.