Today mahogany furniture prices rising, it would have been after blasting Comfort fabric for the sofa and the like. Mahogany furniture and maintenance difficulty is so big, temperature and humidity changes, then it is likely to cause cracking. Mahogany furniture, in addition to viewing Is there a practical value? If you ask for, if there are practical, my answer is there.
but functional, modern furniture and certainly can not go over.
But conversely, the value of mahogany furniture is wood raw material, and process appearance.

present and past is not the same, look the other answer to this question, you will find now the younger generation of Chinese people thinking really changed. My generation who, for furniture, more or family heirlooms handed down the idea.

Therefore, durable inherently be characterized by increasing the requirements. As for practicality, in order to use the furniture itself is developed. Now, some less so-called practical place, simply because the modern and the ancient people living habits storage storage methods are different.
and neoclassical style, has set specific dead, so, mostly mahogany furniture production is typical of the style. Thus resulting contradictions.

As the title Lord said cracking, difficult to maintain, first and foremost, and raw materials, and processing of raw materials, and the other producers of the material when the technology is related to compliance.

analogy, how the wood along the grain itself is expected to open, how to open what is expected, how to deal with knots, which are luxurious. But now, the real experience of the old master, has become increasingly scarce, and now Rosewood, where what aniseed, the material is small. Really aniseed, people also do not want brought back from Africa.

secondly that the original mahogany furniture with paint, and now because of aesthetics have changed the natural texture, rather than the use of a multi-layer paint, just three so-called wax ...... this is the reason.

I remember, paint around the ancient mahogany furniture is not less than 12, that's for sure.

finally speaks comfort ...... our ancestors can not really tell comfort. They invented the style, just to let you abide by the rules, their own at any time to remind ourselves of the straight backs.