Yangon · Est. 1993 Yangon, Myanmar
U Kyaw Sein
Signature by U Kyaw Sein · build on your land

Your land. Your architect.
Our hands.

Houses built on your own land, to your architect’s drawings or to ours, with the garden, the joinery and the furniture carried through by the same family. We take on a small number of houses each year.

Candacraig tower under restoration
Candacraig, Pyin Oo Lwin, under restoration. U Kyaw Sein is on site most days, from the first survey peg to the last coat of oil.
How a house is made

Slower than most. On purpose.

Every stage is seen by the same eyes, and anything that does not look right is taken down and done again.

I
The land

We walk the site with you before anything is drawn. Trees are surveyed and kept; the garden is designed with the house, not after it.

II
The drawings

With your architect, or with our partners Green + Partners Architects of London and Yangon. We turn the vision into rooms, proportions and materials.

III
The build

Structure, teak floors and ceilings, doors and windows, and all fitted joinery. U Kyaw Sein oversees the site in person.

IV
The furnishing

Furniture and cabinetry from Teak by Kyaw Sein, interiors led by Eindri Kyaw Sein, so the house is finished as one work.

V
After the keys

We stay with a house. Teak moves with the seasons, and we return to see to it.

Houses we have built

Placed among their trees

A finished family house among palms
A family house, finished and planted.
Vaulted living room under a teak roof
A living room under a vaulted teak roof.
Pool and pool house at a Signature home
A Signature home: the pool, the pool house and the garden, built together.
Bedroom with live-edge headboard and turned teak lamps
A bedroom: live-edge headboard and turned teak lamps.
Kitchen in fitted teak
Kitchen in fitted teak, from the workshop.
Drawing room with tall windows
A drawing room of tall windows and teak floors.
The same practice, since the 1990s

Hotels built or restored

The full history
Inya Lake HotelYangon
Traders HotelYangon · now Sule Shangri-La
Hotel Nikko Royal LakeYangon · now Chatrium
Tharabar GateOld Bagan
Aureum PalaceBagan · Ngapali · Inle
Villa Inle · Ngapali Bay VillasInle · Ngapali
Correspondence

Tell us about the land, and the house you have in mind.

We will come and walk it with you.

Arrange a site walk +95 9 503 5871