We have another container from Beijing due to arrive with us next week, chock full of Chinese antiques and accessories for the home that I selected during my last visit back in April. Most of these pieces have been up on our website for...
After a short break over Easter I will be heading off to China again next week to meet up with suppliers and to source more antiques and home accessories to be shipped on our forthcoming containers. First stop will be...
After a great visit to Shanghai with plenty of food for thought for future products, it was a short hop to Beijing on Tuesday to start the second part of my trip. This involved meeting up with a few of...
Over the past few days we have been busy adding around 70 new Chinese antique cabinets, tables and chests up onto the ‘Beijing Stock‘ section of our website. If you are not familiar with this part of the site, it is...
Some of our customers have been kind enough to share photos of their newly installed Shimu furniture with us recently, including a few pieces that we made to order. This therefore seems like a good opportunity to let others view some examples...
My last few days in Beijing were spent selecting more Chinese antique furniture to be included on our next container, to be shipped in a month or so from now. I visited a couple of other suppliers that we regularly buy from,...
First chance to sit down and draw breath after a few very busy days in Beijing! I arrived on Thursday evening and straight to work on Friday with a visit to the factory of one of our main suppliers here,...
Our latest container of Chinese antique furniture arrived this week, and with it the final pieces that I selected on my last visit out to Beijing. I’m really pleased with the collection we have right now. It’s a nice mixture between stripped...
Each time I go to China to source antiques I find that furniture from particular regions and certain styles are becoming less and less prevalent, and the price of the these pieces is going up and up as they become...
