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Kottakkal Furniture PalaceAluva · Kerala
A living room at night with one lamp lit over a low teak sofa, the far end of the room in darkness and the doors open onto unlit greenery.

Teak furniture · Aluva, Kerala

Teak furniture that belongs in this climate.

A showroom in Aluva. Sofas, dining sets, cots, wardrobes and desks — every piece selected to hold its shape through the wet months and the dry ones.

Four rooms, four different jobs.

Living, dining, bedroom and office. Each collection starts with the room and what it asks of furniture — then shows you the pieces.

The shop

We don’t make furniture. We choose it.

There is no workshop here — there is judgement. Every piece is taken on only after the same questions: how is it joined, how will it behave in humid air, will the doors still close cleanly in ten years. Most of what suppliers offer fails. The showroom holds what passed.

More about the shop
A low teak table with a solid top and square legs, lit across the surface.

In the room

Rooms are lived in. Furniture should expect it.

A dining table in early morning light with four chairs left pulled out at angles, shutters open onto a garden.
Morning. Chairs left at the angles breakfast pushed them to.B Quarter-sawn teak, and a ring left by a glass. A table should be allowed a life.
A living room at night with one lamp lit over a low teak sofa, the far end of the room in darkness and the doors open onto unlit greenery.
Late evening. One lamp, one sofa, and the rest of the room at rest.
A bedroom in the afternoon, a wall of teak wardrobe doors along one side and a ceiling fan turning above the bed.
Mid-afternoon, and the fan is doing the only work in the room.
An extreme close-up of a mitred corner on a teak table, the grain running in two directions either side of a hairline gap along the joint.
The hairline on this mitre is not a flaw. It is clearance, left on purpose for the wet season.

Material

Built for air this wet.

Kerala gets two monsoons, and for most of the year the humidity stays above seventy per cent. Wood drinks that in: a teak panel a metre wide grows five to six millimetres by July and gives it back by January. Good furniture is built around that movement — in how boards are cut, how corners are joined, and how much clearance a door is given.

3,000mm
Rain a year
70–90%
Humidity, most of the year
5–6mm
Movement across a metre of teak
How to judge timber

Planning a room? Start with a message.

Tell us the room, the piece you are circling, or just the measurements you have. It lands directly with the shop — ask about sizes, wood, prices, or whether something will actually fit your space.

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