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Kottakkal Furniture PalaceAluva · Kerala
A navy sofa with woven cane arms against a dark green wall, a shelf of books and a framed print above it and a caned drum table in front.

Teak · Mahogany · Manjiyam · Aluva, Kerala

Hardwood furniture that belongs in this climate.

Two showrooms in Aluva, and the workshop behind them. Teak, mahogany and manjiyam — sofas, dining sets, cots, wardrobes and desks, built to hold their 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 make the furniture we sell.

There is a workshop behind the showroom, which is why a piece here is not fixed at the size you find it. Tell us the wall, the alcove, the door it has to come through, and it is built to those numbers — drawn with you, made by us, delivered by us. Thirty-four years of doing it in this climate is what decides how it is joined.

More about the shop
The end of a sofa in close-up, a woven cane panel set into a dark timber frame beside the green upholstered seat.

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.
A living room in daylight, a mauve buttoned sofa under a barred window with two matching armchairs turned in toward a glass-topped table.
Late morning, and the window is doing all the work.
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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