About Filipino Narra Hardwood
Filipino narra hardwood furniture, made from the country's national tree (Pterocarpus indicus), defined mid-century heritage craft across the Philippines from 1950 to 1990. Its heartwood ranges golden-yellow to reddish-brown with interlocked, sometimes wavy grain and a high natural luster, hand-polished to a warm reddish-amber glow.
This design system distills that polished narra surface into digital form — deep reddish-brown wood grounds, honeyed amber grain, and woven-rattan tan inlay used sparingly as accent. Warm serif typography carries the grounded, heritage-craft voice of the butaka-chair tradition.
- Origin
- Southeast Asia — Philippines
- Era
- 1950–1990 (Filipino heritage furniture; butaka-chair tradition)
- Key figures
- Filipino furniture makers and woodworkers · Butaka-chair artisans · Heritage-furniture craftsmen
- Movements
- Filipino heritage furniture · Narra hardwood craftsmanship · Butaka 'lazy chair' tradition
Filipino Narra Hardwood design spec
Colors
Typography
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