Things consumers should pay attention to when buying luxury hardwood furniture
Currently, luxury hardwood products are becoming more and more popular among consumers, but due to lack of corresponding understanding, they often get deceived. As the only statutory inspection agency in Yunnan Province that can carry out identification of wood species and furniture materials, experts from the Yunnan Provincial Quality Inspection Institute recommend that consumers purchase with caution and it is best to go to the quality inspection department for inspection.
Chen Lijun, an engineer engaged in wood appraisal at the Yunnan Provincial Quality Inspection Institute, said that during daily inspections, he often encounters some businesses passing off inferior hardwood as good quality wood in order to gain profits, and passing off wood with poor quality as valuable hardwood. For example, at the 18th Kunming Fair held recently in Kunming, the exhibits from Laos and Vietnam were mainly precious hardwood products, including rosewood, rosewood, incense wood, agarwood, rosewood, etc.; Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, etc. There are also a small number of wooden products on display from China. In the meantime, some merchants use coconut wood to pretend to be agarwood to make bracelets, or use rosewood to color it to pretend to be red sandalwood, or use spice-soaked softwood to pretend to be sandalwood, or randomly name other woods with better appearance and color. "Red sandalwood", "golden sandalwood", "white sandalwood", etc. confuse consumers. Of course, sometimes the merchants themselves don’t understand. Some merchants have little professional knowledge of wood and rely more on experience and appearance to judge. However, some wood products cannot be distinguished by color and texture. It is necessary to use a microscope with a magnification of 40 times to 400 times to slice through the wood and observe its internal microstructural characteristics to determine its specific wood type. For the identification of "redwood", in addition to determining the wood species, the density and the average chord diameter of the tube holes must reach the corresponding specified values. Otherwise, even if the wood species is correct, it cannot be determined to be redwood.
In response to the confusion of names in the timber market, my country has formulated corresponding standards. Common mahogany is divided into rosewood, rosewood, incense wood, black rosewood, red rosewood, wenge wood, Ebony, striped ebony and other categories. According to the proportion of wood used in the product, it can be divided into three categories: full ××× furniture (wood from a single tree species), ××× furniture (wood used for main parts) and ××× clad furniture.
Experts suggest that when purchasing luxury hardwood furniture, consumers should pay attention to whether the product has a fixed metal mark instead of a paper trademark that can be easily peeled off; the sales label of the furniture must indicate the name of the wood species and the tree. Latin name, auxiliary materials, wood origin, quality grade, coating, specifications, etc. If you are really unsure, it is better to have it authenticated by a professional appraisal agency. Six major misunderstandings in buying mahogany furniture
Misunderstanding 1: Paying too much attention to the price and being greedy for cheap
When buying mahogany furniture, you should first establish a sense of quality. Things will definitely be abandoned by people. If we blindly pursue cheap prices, it will be difficult to buy high-quality products. Even if the price of high-quality goods is high when you buy them, there will be a lot of room for appreciation, while for shoddy furniture, no matter how low the price is, it is impossible to appreciate.
Misunderstanding 2: Only care about the authenticity of the wood, ignoring the quality of material selection
Material fidelity is the minimum guarantee for purchasing mahogany furniture. A piece of high-quality mahogany furniture has high requirements for material selection. It is made of carefully selected aniseed materials, no white leather, and no patchwork. Otherwise, the furniture will easily crack and deform, making it difficult to use normally, and it will be impossible to inherit it.
Misconception: Material is important but workmanship is not important
Many customers only care about the material when buying mahogany furniture, thinking that as long as the material is good, it has collection value. However, they do not know that mahogany furniture is divided into three parts and seven materials. Division of labor, good material is only the foundation. Without good workmanship, it is just a pile of wood, without any collection value. Good wood does not mean good furniture. Just like using the same "Four Treasures of the Study", one can imagine the gap between the works of ordinary people and the works of calligraphers and painters. Using the same wood to make furniture, there is a huge difference between good and bad furniture.
Misunderstanding 4: Being too obsessed with the rise and fall of prices
As a rare tree species, the scarcity of resources has caused the price of redwood to continue to rise.
As a treasure of traditional Chinese culture, mahogany furniture combines many advantages such as aesthetics, practicality, and collection. Appreciation is an inevitable process. It is normal for prices to fluctuate in stages. If you have already inspected it, it is better to sell it as soon as possible. Generally speaking, the longer you wait for the increase, The resources are almost exhausted, especially the cochin rosewood which is very popular now, and will be hard to find in a few years.
Misunderstanding 5: Thinking that repurchase is guaranteed
There are many traps here. It is just a way for merchants to divert customers’ attention and let customers enter the "no matter what, they can return the goods in the future anyway" , can’t suffer a loss” misunderstanding. Don’t you know that there is a lot of knowledge in this. First, there are many restrictions when it comes to repurchase, and the initiative is completely in the hands of the merchants. Second, the price of mahogany has increased too much. If you want to repurchase it, you will have to spend several times more to buy it. So It is still necessary to check the quality when purchasing, and get it right in one step.
Misunderstanding 6 must be "according to music" to be the best
Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the pinnacle of the development history of our country's furniture, leaving us with many beautiful shapes and craftsmanship. A superb classic. Imitation is a good thing, but we cannot think that innovative things are not good. After all, furniture is a kind of daily necessities, and it is not necessarily necessary to stick to pure antiques and ignore the basic properties of furniture. Any art or anything must develop and innovate to achieve glory in every era. If our mahogany furniture remains antique and remains the same in style and size as it was hundreds of years ago, it shows that our era and industry lack creative capabilities.