About Us | jbf

Our early years started in 1994, manufacturing high-end custom interiors in Cape Town, under the name of Bauhaus Kitchens and Interiors. Our bespoke kitchen, living and bedroom furniture was sold and installed as far afield as in Rome and London.

In 2016, an opportunity arose to work with factories in Asia, directing the Product Development and Quality for export furniture to the USA. Two years later we established JBF in Vietnam, providing value adding furniture services and collections, at that stage primarily focussed on reclaimed pine. Since then, we’ve grown to understand the manufacturing environment in Vietnam over the years and built our relationships with many factories.

However, there are some fairly immoveable boundaries in the design, construction and finishing of pine and reclaimed pallet wood. Some styles just need hardwoods and veneers, different textures and wood grains. It’s with this desire to do more, create more beautiful, make more lasting, but still retain a great value proposition, that the Ohnya collection was born. Ohnya is our newest collection of living room occaisional furniture in solid oak and veneers. Launched in January 2026, it marks a special milestone in a 35 year journey of furniture development. The name Ohnya has meaning too. It’s an english spelling of the Vietnamese for ‘being at home’ or ở nhà. For us, this has many meanings, and for our customers, we strive to create furniture that is beautiful, relaxed and lasting.

Our business is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is managed by our family team. I am joined by Jovidon Khojaev in manufacturing quality and Tâm Hùynh in our factory relationships. We look forward to supporting you and your customers with excellent products and service.

Jonathan Barnes

We operate solely on behalf of our customers and are independent from all factories, receiving no commission, payments, or incentives from any factory. Furthermore we respect all our client design IP and do not copy or share with any other factory.

Our services and collections are available to all customers, with or without their own presence in Vietnam.

For larger customers, we offer our furniture collections, sold and exported directly from the factory and our furniture services are available for any of their products in Vietnam.

For small to medium customers we buy from the factory and on-sell, offering a one-stop all-inclusive service.

JBF is a Vietnam based furniture company, established in 2018, managing furniture collections on behalf of our overseas wholesale and retail customers. We also design and develop our own collections: JBF Reclaimed and more recently the OHNYA collection.

We are an experienced team, with strong ethics, and strive to offer outstanding service. We invite you to explore our services and recent work on this site and contact us by email for more information.

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes Furniture Pte. Ltd.