This is the first of three posts about heavy furniture–especially the universal wooden stools–found in a wide variety of shops in Cambodia. Everybody wants it! Click here.
Category: Green Forum
The environment in Cambodia.
Topics: Wood #7
Another distinctive feature of Cambodian wooden furniture is the large wooden vase-shaped object, a purely decorative adjunct to any home or business setting. They are all sizes but the really large and massive ones are the ones that catch your attention as you walk into a business or someone’s house. Click here to see more of them.
Topics: All-purpose Platforms #5
This post focuses on one type of Cambodian furniture, large flat platforms that are found everywhere and are used for everything. Click here to see more.
Topics: Wood #4
This is the beginning of the section on how Cambodia’s forests and luxury woods are used. This page looks at the massive style of traditional formal Cambodia furniture which is a part of almost every household that can afford it. Click here to take a look.
Topic: Wood #3
Today I basically redid the pages I had already published here so you might want to take a look at the ones you’ve already seen. New today is a page on the way wood is valued in Cambodian society. Click here to take a look.
Topic: Wood #2
Yesterday I started addressing the topic of wood in Cambodia. I revised the table of contents and have restructured yesterday’s content into a new section about deforestation. Click here to go to the main page about WOOD.
Topic: Wood #1
What I call TOPICS are different aspects of Cambodia life and culture that I think deserve a fuller treatment than just one post on this page. Topics will have their own pages and the posts here will point to those pages. This is the start of a Topic treatment about wood in Cambodia, a commodity that is the focus of a lot of society and is much in the news. Click here to go to the main page about WOOD.