If you’re on the hunt for a furniture bargain this month, then check out the teak furniture sale happening on the website and in the Uneeka.home store in Truro, Cornwall. There are up to 50 percent reductions on some items. The sale finishes at the end of March.

All of our teak furniture is produced by a small artisan company called Warjiyo Furniture who are based on the island of Java in Indonesia. As with any of our producers like this, the craftsmen are paid a fair and living wage for their work. The wood for the furniture comes from locally, sustainably managed plantations. So not only are the craftsmen treated fairly, but so is the environment.

Also, we’d like to the announce that the winner of our Fairtrade Fortnight competition was Jenifer Hare. The correct answer was indeed the Freshwater Pearl Drop Necklace. Jenifer has won a beautiful Mirabelle bangle.

And finally, if you haven’t signed up to receive our newsletter yet, please do. This coming week or so there will be an announcement for a unique store event and it will be one of the few ways you’ll hear anything about it. Either sign up in store or on uneeka.com using the sign-up box on the right side of the homepage.

It’s been just over six months since we last looked at illegal logging. And this time the news is not much better.

The World Wildlife Fund (as part of their “What Wood You Choose?” campaign) are reporting that many British companies do not know where their word products come from. Despite the fact that by 2013, under EU law, they’re going to need to know the details behind each step in their supply chain. (more…)

Antique furniture is a green way to furnish one’s home. There, I said it and it is true, as an article from the Guardian shows, but – not all of us have the keen eye and the desire to participate in furniture auctions or stalk the aisles of antique furniture shops. Many just want pieces that don’t hark back to a Dickensian novel. (more…)