Solid wood, every time
We do not build with veneered MDF or particleboard cores. If the spec calls for solid teak, the frame is solid teak — visible faces and hidden cleats alike.
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Our story
A workshop built around the long way of doing things.
Glintora was founded in 2017 by two cabinetmakers and one upholsterer who had spent the better part of a decade making other people's furniture and wanted, finally, to make their own.
Beginnings
An atelier, not a factory.
The original studio was a narrow shophouse unit in Damansara Jaya — two workbenches, a band saw, and a kettle that ran from seven in the morning. Our first commission was a single banquette for a friend's coffee bar. Our second was three more banquettes for the bar next door, because the first one was, in their words, "the most comfortable seat in the row".
Word travelled the way word travels in Petaling Jaya — slowly, then suddenly. By the end of 2019 we had grown to six craftspeople and moved into the current workshop on Jalan Industri Damansara Utama 8. We have stayed deliberately small since.
What we believe
Five principles, written on the workshop wall.
Joinery before fastener
Mortise-and-tenon, dovetail, dowelled — we choose joinery for the load it carries, and reach for screws only where a screw genuinely earns its place.
One workshop, one hand
Every piece passes through the same workshop from frame to finish. Nothing is subcontracted to a production line and then re-badged.
Honest about constraints
If your timing, budget or fabric pick won't work, we will tell you on the first call rather than the last. It saves everyone a long Tuesday afternoon.
Cared for after delivery
Annual conditioning visits, spare-cushion stock kept on the shelf, fabric records retained for five years — we expect our furniture to outlast its first room.
Quiet about it
We let the work travel by word of mouth and let our clients describe it in their own words. We have never spent a ringgit on a roadside billboard.
The team
Fourteen people, almost all of whom you will meet.
Our craftspeople have an average of eleven years of upholstery, joinery and finishing experience between Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Yogyakarta. When you commission a piece, you will be introduced by name to the carpenter and the upholsterer who will build it — and if you ask, they will walk you round the bench it is sitting on.
- Two senior cabinetmakers leading the frame team
- Four upholsterers across spring, padding and dress trades
- Three finishers handling sanding, staining, oiling and lacquer
- One pattern-maker — the only person allowed to touch the cutting table
- Two design coordinators who keep the studio talking to clients
- Two apprentices in their second and third year of training
Selected partnerships
Where our pieces have gone to live.
Hospitality, residential and corporate clients, mostly in the Klang Valley, with regular travel to Penang and Sabah for installations.
Pullman KLCC
Suite-level reading chairs and lobby benches, 2023 refurbishment.
Banyan Tree Pavilion
Bespoke dressing tables and ottomans for two presidential suites, 2024.
Tabik Brasserie
Thirty-two dining chairs and a full bar banquette installation, Bangsar 2023.
Stellaris Group HQ
Boardroom table, twelve carvers and a low credenza, Mont Kiara 2024.
Private residences
Forty-plus commissions across Damansara Heights, Bangsar, Mont Kiara and Bukit Tunku.
Heritage Penang shophouse
Full furniture replacement for a restored 1920s Peranakan home in George Town, 2025.