I started up my career as a graphic designer in the metropolitan, Kuala Lumpur years ago. However, the hectic lifestyle, hustle and bustle work naturedemoralised my soul as well as exhausted my spirit.
A village boy seemed struggle too hard in adaptation for survival. It ended up with failure anyway, Therefore, I returned to my hometown jobless. Spending daily idle hours at the seaside figuring doom, an eroded rock caught my vision one day. The natural rustic wood and unique rock sparked up my artistic nerves thereafter to complement what I do today. I handmade the very first piece of ashtray of the collected rock at the selling price of RM2.00 to my neighbour. That is how I started up a business with the blessing of nature.
Understand the sense of boredom with modern fine furnished home deco items and furniture; I extended my idea and design to rustic wood and bamboos after mesmerising in rocks for years. My inspiration and designs evolved from much time spending in a lush growth of tropical rain forests in Malaysia.
Rustic wood inherits unique contours, colour and natural rough surfaces. Tonnes of natural trees are regarded as defective by housing developers and logging industry, as some tree trunks are partially hollow, twisted, forked to the ground curved or knotty. These materials are impossible to serve conventional furniture industry but they suit my work perfectly.
To be competitive and having the edge on others, I keep on challenging myself with contemporary and unique designs of different natural materials. I strongly believe handmade yet practical furniture cum home deco items really quench my ultimate self-satisfaction as well as avid handicraft lovers’ desires. Well, humans start getting back to the nature I suppose.
Realising that more and more people are seeking for unique design and a masterpiece artwork which inspires me to set up Antique de Classique, our material are discovered from the mother nature hence they are unique in different ways, beside each items is purely handcrafted, so there are no two items look exactly alike. Well, if you are looking for artwork remember not to compromise to anything until you visit Antique de Classique.
