Marriott Belgrade

Marriott Belgrade is the largest single run we can point at: roughly 1,500 pieces across two custom guestroom types and the restaurant, made in Gemlik and delivered to the middle of Belgrade by road. We published the piece count ourselves while the order was on the floor, and it is still the number we give in writing when a buyer asks.

The program ran in the order every flagged hotel runs. Our drawing office issued shop drawings against the architects' set, the drawings went through Marriott's review, and the first room was built as a mock-up at full production quality. Series production was released only after the mock-up was approved.

Alongside production we supplied the fabrics and provided furniture R&D support to the hotel's architects. That support is drawing-office work: how a drawn piece gets built, settled with the designer before anything is cut.

The furniture itself came off 5,000 m² of production in Gemlik, under our own production management: machining, veneer, finishing and upholstery in one building, export packing on the same site.

Belgrade shows why the Balkans suit a Turkish floor: the delivery leg is a truck. Published transit tables from Turkish forwarders put Belgrade at two to four days from the Marmara region, over the Kapıkule crossing and up through Bulgaria into Serbia. The tables are the forwarders' own and undated, and the Kapıkule queue is the biggest single variance in them, so treat the band as a band. The same door by sea is measured in weeks.

The paperwork is settled trade, and it is different paperwork from an EU delivery. Serbia sits outside the EU–Türkiye Customs Union, so the document is a EUR.1 movement certificate raised per consignment, rather than the A.TR we use into the EU. Duty on furniture into Serbia went to zero in 2015 under the Türkiye–Serbia free trade agreement and has stayed there, on condition of a valid proof of origin; without the proof, the MFN rate applies. We state the mechanics as our customs broker has them and confirm them in writing per contract. (Verified 5 August 2026 against the Turkish Ministry of Trade's FTA pages.)

Two things on this page can be checked from outside. The piece count, which we published ourselves and still put in writing. And the images, which are the architect's visualizations of the rooms, captioned as visualizations on every frame. When the rooms are photographed properly, the renders come down.