Yangon · Est. 1993 Yangon, Myanmar
U Kyaw Sein
Houses, hotels and furniture in Myanmar teak · since 1993

A house should outlast
the people who built it.

We do not believe in fast work. We take the time the work asks for, and sometimes a little more. We build for a small number of clients each year, and we keep their names to ourselves.

Candacraig, the 1904 estate in Pyin Oo Lwin
Candacraig, Pyin Oo Lwin. The 1904 hill-station estate, restored by the house.
U Kyaw Sein walking on site in front of a restoration under scaffolding
U Kyaw Sein, on site. 2022
The Builder

The land comes first.
The house is placed in it.

U Kyaw Sein does not manage his sites from an office. He is on them most days, from the first survey peg to the last coat of oil. He is known for one habit above all: if a thing looks wrong once it is built, he takes it down and builds it again.

He thinks of himself less as a developer than as a gardener who happens to build. The garden is designed with the house, not after it, and walls are moved for trees rather than the other way round.

“Nothing is more classic, or more lasting, than Burmese teak.” U Kyaw Sein
Three ways to work with us

One family, one workshop

Candacraig tower under restoration
I · Signature

Build on your land

Your land, your architect or ours, and our hands from the first peg to the last cushion.

How a house is made
Bedroom at Parami Valley
II · Private Residences

A house, complete

The family’s own houses, designed, built, planted and furnished, then offered finished.

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Live-edge rosewood table
III · Teak by Kyaw Sein

Made to be inherited

Furniture and cabinetry in seasoned teak and rosewood. No catalogue; each piece begins with a conversation.

Commission a piece
Parami Valley drawing room
Currently offered · one residence

Parami Valley

Contemporary heritage, by father and daughter.
Area1,100 sq ft
BedroomsThree
MaterialsTeak, rosewood, marble
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An evening at home

A house is finished when it is lived in.

A dinner that runs late, a garden set for a wedding, and the ordinary evenings in between.

Round table laid for dinner
A round table laid for dinner.
Veranda set for lunch
Lunch on the veranda.
Entrance hall set for guests
The hall, set for guests.
Flowers on a live-edge table
Flowers on a live-edge table.
Hotels built or restored since the 1990s
Inya LakeTradersNikko Royal LakeTharabar GateAureum PalaceVilla InleNgapali Bay VillasCandacraig
The full history
Correspondence

Write to us about the house you have in mind.

We reply to everyone, and build for a few. Yangon, by appointment.

Telephone the house +95 9 402 887 041 [email address]