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Gede began his apprenticeship at sixteen in his uncle's joinery workshop in Dalung. By the time he was twenty-five, he was leading production on contract work for two of the first boutique resorts to open in Seminyak. At thirty, he founded his own studio.

Over the following twenty years, Gede's team supplied furniture for properties in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Vietnam and across the Indonesian archipelago. He never opened a showroom. He never exhibited at trade fairs. Every client came through a referral. That changed when Ubud Atelier began working with his studio as its dedicated Western partner.

Gede specialises in teak joinery and structural rattan, a combination that produces furniture robust enough for commercial hospitality use without losing the warmth that defines Balinese craft. His benchmark: every piece must be as structurally sound after ten years of outdoor use as on the day it was finished.

He works from a 1,200 sqm studio compound in Dalung, north of Kuta. The compound houses the timber yard, milling room, joinery shop, rattan workshop, finishing bays and a dedicated quality-control area where each piece is inspected before it moves to the packing room.