Global Trade Gal
The Global Trade Gal Podcast gives international entrepreneurship, trade, business, and supply chain management advice. The Global Trade Gal - Anita - has over 30 years of experience living and working overseas as an entrepreneur. The Global Trade Gal podcast gives information, stories, advice - anything to do with entrepreneurship, trade, supply chain management, living and working overseas, creating, developing, and manufacturing home decor and home furnishing products. Anita’s company, Mondoro, sponsors the Global Trade Gal podcast; Mondoro designs, develops, and manufactures home decor and home furnishing products for the US market. To find out more about Anita and Mondoro, you can visit their website at Mondoro.com.
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Rattan Furniture And Asia and Southeast Asian Colonization
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Anita Hummel
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Season 1
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Episode 28
Many people may be surprised to learn that the rise of rattan furniture has a lot to do with Southeast Asia’s colonization. As Western power colonized most of Southeast Asia during the late 19th century and early 20th century, they needed furniture to sit on.
When colonizers came to the new countries, they found materials that they were not used to working with, such as rattan, palm, and bamboo. They used this to create something that could comfort their home, such as chairs to sit on. Many of the places they colonized did not traditionally use chairs for sitting on.
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