FROM CONCEPT TO REALITY
Navilo furniture is mostly made of solid wood - chiefly mahogany - crafted by skilled woodworkers who share old and traditional ways of making furniture mostly by hand. We carefully develop our concepts for specific markets. Navilo enduringly monitors the different markets to detect or even create new design trends. It is most important for us to introduce creative and innovative items and collections consistently to be ahead of time, to be ahead of others and to supply our customers with cutting-edge and high value products.

THE MAKING OF NAVILO FURNITURE
Unlike metal, glass or plastic, our hardwoods are very much alive when they're brought to the Navilo factories.

The first step is to stabilize the wood. Inside, wood tends to shrink or expand as it loses and absorbs moisture due to temperature, dryness or relative humidity extremes. Wood will always regain its original dimensions under stable conditions, provided it has been "seasoned" - that is, dried to an appropriate moisture level - before it is made into furniture.

Because wood is alive, our hardwoods are slowly dried to moisture content of 6% to 8%. Boards are carefully sorted and matched with a consistent grain pattern and color. Panels are then planed and sanded for use as tabletops, legs, back panels or other components

Navilo's construction follows the manner of traditional mortise-and-tenon joints - still the best guarantee of strength and permanent stability. Larger wooden panels or certain components are carefully veneered and sorted to match solid wooden grains. On solid wood constructions, Navilo follows the rules of floating components to allow the wood to shrink or expand avoiding the risk of cracking, such as table tops, shelves, backs or even drawer bottoms. In more detail this states that compnents are held in proper construction but allows the wood to move, or naturally expand and shrink, according to the environmetal conditions such as tempratures and relative humidity factors. Natural and solid wood appearance is most important to us and keep Navilo's furniture quality and integrity standards at a constant level.

While advanced quality control in Navilo's production, machining and sanding processes, we rely on traditional cabinetmaking techniques for furniture assembly and finishing, where human values - trained eye and skills - take charge of the final result. >>> MORE