Thailand was a unified kingdom, established in the mid 14th century.  It was known as Siam until 1939.  Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power.  Thailand's climate is typically tropical and sticky year-round - especially in Bangkok, with a few cooler months from November to February.  Its population is about 59 million with many Hill Tribes still living in the northern regions.  It is in these regions where we always apply our Fair Trade policy.

Thailand is a great source of our home décor items, much of it handmade and obtained through fair trade practice.  We carry a great collection of teakwood carvings, mango wood vases and textiles including sarongs, raw silk scarves and jewelry from the northern regions of Burma and Laos in Thailand. 

 

Clipper Trading is proud to bring you our "green-line" furniture which can be viewed on this site or at http://www.woodartandfurniture.com.  This exciting line of wood furniture is becoming more en vogue in today's home interior and office environment as we become more conscious of preserving what already is. 

 

More eco-friendly furniture consists of hand- crafted chairs and benches made from giant teak tree roots. Under forest maintenance projects in Thailand the large teak tree trunks are hauled away for their purposes while the tree roots and bases remain. It is of these left-over pieces with their naturally shaped artistic look that our Root Wood Chairs, Tables and Benches are made. No two pieces are ever the same. 

 

Explore a variety of indoor furniture such as rosewood tables, ebony consoles, tamarind coffee tables, teak desks as well as many artistically shaped stools and pedestals made of enterolobium*. All woods used are reclaimed from old buildings or fallen timbers.