Engineered bamboo furniture with mortise and tenon joints

A method for making engineered bamboo furniture components, the method comprising:

• providing flat, elongated strips of bamboo, each strip having longitudinal fibers, a pair of opposite wide faces and a pair of opposite narrow edges;
• treating the strips by high temperature steaming, high temperature drying, carbonizing, dehydrating and starch removal processes;
• depositing an adhesive on the opposite wide faces of a first group of the strips;
• arranging the first group of strips in a layer such that their respective wide faces are disposed in opposition to each other and their respective longitudinal fibers are disposed parallel to each other;
• adhering the respective opposing wide faces of the first group of strips to each other to form a face-bonded sheet;
• depositing an adhesive on the opposite narrow edges of a second group of the strips;
• arranging the second group of strips in a layer such that their narrow edges are disposed in opposition to each other and their respective longitudinal fibers are disposed parallel to each other;
• adhering the respective opposing narrow edges of the strips of the second group of strips to each other to form an edge-bonded sheet;
• and,
• laminating the face-bonded sheet between two edge-bonded sheets to form an I-type panel.

An article of furniture, comprising:

• a first component made of engineered bamboo and having a tenon formed thereon;
• a second component made of engineered bamboo and having a mortise complementary to the tenon of the first component formed therein;
• and,
• means for adhering the tenon of the first component in the mortise of the second component.