Custom nautical bedroom · Riviera Furniture · Jacó, Costa Rica

Riviera Furniture doesn’t sell furniture. It makes it. Each piece is a commission — designed around a specific space, a specific client, a specific room. The dimensions, the fabric, the wood, the finish. All of it decided before a single cut is made.

That’s not how most furniture works in Costa Rica. Or anywhere, really. But it’s the only way Riviera works — and it shows.

The Material

Wood that already knows this climate

The workshop selects native Costa Rican hardwoods — not because they’re cheaper or easier, but because they’re the only ones that make sense here. Plywood doesn’t last in this environment. The humidity, the salt air, the heat — standard industrial wood doesn’t survive a full season before the bugs find it.

Native wood is different. It spent centuries adapting to exactly this climate. The insects that would destroy imported timber don’t touch it — they evolved alongside it and learned, over generations, that it’s not worth the effort. That’s not marketing. That’s biology. Every Riviera piece is built on a foundation that was already here — already resistant, already calibrated to the Pacific coast.

Wood slat collection · Native hardwood · Custom built

The Work

No two pieces identical

The headboard in your bedroom will not exist anywhere else. That’s not a figure of speech — it’s literally true. Riviera doesn’t manufacture. It builds to order. The dimensions are yours. The fabric is chosen for your space. The wood is cut for your project. The nightstands, the bed frames, the upholstered panels — everything comes from a conversation between the client, the space, and the workshop.

The range is wide. A tufted white leather headboard for a beachfront villa. A warm boucle panel with gold lamps for a boutique rental. A clean white frame against a deep ocean blue wall. A slatted teak backdrop with floating nightstands. Each one a different brief, a different room — built with the same hands, the same wood, the same standard.

Boucle headboard · Sage green nightstands · Gold sculptural lamps

Coastal linen · Navy stripe lumbar · Light oak frame

The Images

The photography they deserved

Here’s the honest part: most of these rooms were photographed with AI. Not because the work isn’t real — it is, completely — but because the real photos never happened. Projects finished, clients moved in, doors closed. The craft existed. The documentation didn’t.

Adobe Firefly was used to reconstruct each bedroom from reference images — same furniture, same proportions, same materials — and render them at the quality the work always deserved. What you see is accurate. The headboards, the nightstands, the fabrics, the wood tones. All of it real. Just finally photographed properly.

That gap — between the quality of the work and how it gets documented — is a Costa Rica problem. Beautiful things get built here every day and disappear without a trace. This is a small attempt to fix that, one bedroom at a time.

Charcoal upholstered frame · Grey quilted bedding · White gloss nightstands

White panel headboard · Ocean blue accent wall · Chrome lamps