Chittagong
Solid wood furniture hand-built in Chittagong - for boardrooms, campuses, homes, hotels and restaurants that outlive their decade.
Introduction
Chittagong
ABOYOB is a furniture & craft studio in Chittagong - we choose grain by sight, join by hand.
12,000 pieces across schools, boardrooms, lobbies and dinner tables. One timber yard, one kiln, one long bench of makers.
“Furniture holds the memory of the tree it came from.”
The yard
Air-dried shegun, oak and walnut rested six years before the first cut.
The kiln
One kiln held at a 12% moisture floor - joints stay true through the seasons.
The bench
Twelve makers along one bench; one pair of hands per piece, first mark to last wax.
Catalogue
The floor, wall to wall.
Case Study
Private · Gulshan · 2023
A Gulshan headquarters moved off imported laminate and took a whole ABOYOB floor.
Forty workstations, six meeting rooms, and a boardroom table that has survived a merger. The furniture reads at thirty feet as craft - and at one foot as exactly the tree it was cut from.
Scene one - Gulshan HQ
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+38%
Repeat commissions year on year
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98%
Deliveries on the quoted date
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0
Callbacks across contract years
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4
Generations on one lecture bench
Skillset
What the yard actually does.
Selection
We walk the timber yard with you or for you - choosing grain the way you choose travel companions. No two planks get to pretend they are one tree.
Milling
Timber is squared, air-dried then kiln-dried, and milled to the workshop's moisture curve - so the joinery stays shut when the seasons move.
Joinery
Mortise-and-tenon, frame-and-panel, and dovetails wherever they can hide. Our joiners judge steel as 'strong' and wood as 'honest' - that is the whole brief.
Finishing
Open-pore oil and hand-rubbed finishes. Brass where a piece deserved a quiet highlight. We finish like people finishing something they will live with.
A bench of makers for your room - joiners, finishers, one kiln, and a yard dog with strong opinions.
About
A workshop, not a showroom.
Three decades, one tin-roof start, and the same conviction: furniture keeps the memory of the tree it came from. You can read the whole story below the fold.
Meet the workshop
12
Makers on the bench
4
Core disciplines
34
Years in the workshop
Gallery
Our gallery.
Bhabna - Director's Desk
From ৳85,000
Milon - Meeting Table
From ৳240,000
Agomon - Reception Desk
From ৳98,000
Asan - Executive Chair
From ৳18,500
Path - Lecture Bench
From ৳12,500 / unit
Grontho - Library Shelf
From ৳64,000 / bay
Monojog - Study Carrel
From ৳16,000
Shobha - Seminar Table
From ৳22,000 / section
Ahar - Dining Table
From ৳58,000
Nidra - Bed Frame
From ৳72,000
Pathagar - Bookshelf
From ৳88,000
Cha - Tea Table
From ৳14,000
Pathok - Reading Chair
From ৳23,500
Shagotom - Lobby Console
From ৳140,000
Shanti - Suite Headboard
From ৳96,000
Cha Golpo - Café Bistro Table
From ৳9,500
Bhromon - Luggage Rack
From ৳6,800
Rannaghor - Chef's Counter
From ৳110,000
Bonbhojon - Dining Table
From ৳16,500
Panshala - Bar Shelf
From ৳120,000
Obhortonna - Host Stand
From ৳12,000
Showreel
The workshop, in motion.
Sawdust, steam and the grain of golden light - about forty seconds.
Clients on the record
What the rooms say about us.
“We replaced three hundred imported desks with ABOYOB. The boardroom is now a place where decisions happen slowly and land permanently.”
Operations Director
Corporate office, Chittagong
Over the years, we have had the privilege of furnishing
- Corporate Floors
- Boutique Hotels
- Universities
- Restaurants
- Hospitals
- Banks
- Embassies
- Whole Homes
Questions
The ones we hear beside the bench.
Something outside all of these - write to studio@aboyob.com.