Chettinad Antiques and Furniture

Most of the Chettinad houses consist of wood-carving in doors, gigantic doorframes, stucco windows and railings which are rich in art . All the furniture which are used by Chettiars will be very valuable and elegant even after several years. They almost use rich teak wood and rosewood for their buildings.Their doors and windows will be carved well with some of the goddess in order to signify their wealth.

They use huge copper water vats, grain bins trace, big bronze pots, giant kooja’s and thooku(a vessel with lid). They use all these antiques for all their functions in order to serve food in big banquet hall so that they don’t get these vessels for rent during any festival or functions. Most of them will do their marriage at their big houses rather than in Kalyana Mandabam(Marriage Hall). Nowadays Chettinad houses are converted into Kalyana mandabam.

Karaikudi’s Muniswaran Kovil street has several antique shops selling stuff from local home furnitures, lots of junk, glass objects, glass with art works etc. Most of these buildings remain intact. They have been well-maintained, with the antiques still shining in all their glory way of life.