Where your furniture begins.

Gede is fifty-three and comes from Gitgit Village in North Bali, where woodworking came to him through his father. Wood has been part of his life from the start. But the path to his own atelier ran through more than a decade inside the export furniture trade, on the side that decides whether a piece ships or gets sent back.

His training began under a Filipino master craftsman at a trading company, where he was promoted into quality control. From there he spent four and a half years as Quality Controller for a Japanese buying agent, then held the same role for a villa developer. An Australian company brought him on as buying agent and quality controller. He closed this chapter as Assistant Director for a French import-export company, a position he held for six years.

That sequence is the point. For more than ten years, Gede was the person buyers in Japan, Australia and France trusted to judge whether export production met their standard. He learned the trade not as a maker first, but as the final check between a workshop and a container bound overseas.

In 2015 he founded his own atelier in Kerobokan. The reason was specific: to build furniture with a level of attention to detail that high-volume operations cannot sustain, to keep communication direct with the people who commission the work, and to put craft, flexibility and quality ahead of throughput.

His view of the work is unhurried. Wood teaches patience, and quality cannot be rushed. A piece is built to outlast trends and to serve families for generations, not to satisfy a single season.