Billion-dollar tables and chairs in Dong Ky wood craft village

Besides tables and chairs, products with affordable prices, in Dong Ky wood craft village (Tu Son city) there are wooden furniture sets with highly sophisticated carvings, worth up to billions of dong.

Dong Ky village is famous everywhere for its production of fine art wooden furniture. Currently, the village has more than 400 companies and cooperatives.

Wooden handicraft products of Dong Ky craft village currently serve mainly the Chinese market, domestically and some countries with the same East Asian customs.

Thanks to the development of fine art wood products, this village is changing day by day, and is known as a “billionaire village” because of its high income. According to statistics, for every 10 households in the craft village, there is 1 director of a company or factory.

Mr. Nguyen Duy Toan, Director of Toan Loc Cooperative, said that last year, the craft village began to restore production after a period of being heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the recovery process was not easy when raw material prices increased, and finding outlets for high-value products encountered many difficulties. Many craft village producers said they wanted support in promoting and finding outlets for their products.

The prices of wooden handicraft products in the craft village range from tens of millions of dong to billions, even tens of billions of dong.

A set of wooden furniture made from wood imported from South Africa, intricately carved and worth billions of dong, is displayed at a booth in Dong Ky craft village.

Another set of tables and chairs worth billions is on display at the craft village. According to the sculptor, a product like this has thousands of details, patterns, and shapes that not only require meticulousness and high precision, but more importantly, the carver must have aesthetic sense, talent combined with many years of accumulated experience.

According to the owner, these high-end products are suitable for use and decoration in villas, castles, penthouses, hotels, especially buildings with ancient French architectural influences.

In recent days, images of Dong Ky wooden seats in Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater have been circulating on social media and causing controversy. Some people say that using all wooden seats is not suitable for the general design style of current theaters and is costly. According to the Bac Ninh Urban Development Management Board - the investor of Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater , the total cost for the table and chair items in the Theater is 6.3 billion VND, including 341 chairs and 185 tables. In the 15th National Architecture Awards (2022 - 2023) that just took place, Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater was honored with the Silver Prize in the Public Architecture category. According to the evaluation of the Jury of the 15th National Architecture Award: "The architecture of the Quan Ho Folk Song Theater is creative and impressive. Regarding space: the use of materials, colors... is simple but sophisticated, exploring traditional Vietnamese patterns and motifs".

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