During the 80 s and 90 s the go to wood for a well grained look was rubberwood.
Chinese furniture wood types.
It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as dalbergia odorifera.
These properties make them dimensionally stable hardwearing rot and insect resistant and when new highly fragrant.
Simple structure and minimal decoration set off the natural beauty of the wood.
Each type comes with a different set of characteristics in terms of color density grain and finishing.
The chinese term huanghuali literally means yellow flowering pear wood.
In premodern times the wood was know as huali or hualu.
Its hardness is useful in making of table tops and cabinets.
It is not as red as rosewood and stained in the brownish tones looking like teak walnut or pecan.
Classic chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods known collectively as rosewood 紅木 literally red wood.
Native chinese woods are primarily elmwood beechwood pine and fir with some mahogany and walnut.
Elmwood is a softer lumber than rosewood and native to northern china it is a medium density lumber that is denser than pine.
Many other native woods are tried some with success and others not so much.
These woods are denser than water fine grained and high in oils and resins.
Poorer provinces developed the lacquer technique to copy the dark color and style of the zitan or dark red sandlewood furniture.
One is called chu wood and is similar in appearance to oak but is difficult to finish without dark streaking.
Emit pleasant aromas naturally adding a touch of taste and grace.
It s just that the furniture market is very material driven the most valuable and precious of all of these materials are zitan and huanghuali two types of hardwood found among other places on china s largest island hainan.
This meaningful simplicity was achieved without sacrificing comfort.