About · Cohuman
Thirty-seven years of watching how people actually work.
Tushar Shah started Furniture Concepts in Surat in 1989. Cohuman is what the workshop became.
The first workshop made desks for one accountancy practice on Ring Road. The brief has not changed much since: a surface at the right height, storage that locks, and a chair somebody can sit in for eight hours without thinking about it.
What changed is the scale, and the questions clients bring. Fewer people ask for a desk. More ask how many desks fit, whether the floor works for three days a week instead of five, and what happens to it all in year seven.
The Cohuman name is the answer to that. Co- because a workplace is shared before it is anything else. Human because the measurements that matter are the ones taken off a body, not a floor plan. Same workshop, same family, a wider brief.
Along the way we have represented and marketed globally renowned names in this industry — exposure that set a standard for what “quality” means before we ever apply it to something we make ourselves.
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A short timeline
1989
Furniture Concepts opens in Surat. Desks for one accountancy practice on Ring Road.
1998
First full-floor contract. Manufacturing moves into a dedicated workshop.
2009
Seating brought in-house — upholstery, foam and mechanism assembly.
2018
Turnkey fit-out offered as a single contract alongside furniture.
2026
Relaunched as Cohuman: one brand across desking, seating, storage and lounge.
Milestone dates to be confirmed with the founder before publication.
International standards, close to home.
Over three decades we have represented and marketed globally renowned brands, bringing their manufacturing and design standards into everything we build ourselves.
A game changer in metal bases.
Most furniture makers outsource the metal base. We manufacture ours in-house on advanced European machinery — which is why the modular systems we build hold their precision on-site, not just on a drawing.
Metal bases, Cutting edge Technology
Advanced European machinery producing precision metal bases ourselves — the one component most furniture makers still outsource.
Modular by design
High-accuracy fabrication behind truly modular systems — flexible to lay out, easy to reconfigure, clean to install.
Drawings before deliveries
Technical drawings and software-backed specifications for architects and facility teams, from concept through to execution.
A finish for every brief
An extensive range of metal finishes and colour palettes, so a spec can match a brand without giving up durability.
The showroom
Hazira Road, Surat.
Thirty-seven years in one city. Come and sit on it before you specify it — the floor carries desking, seating, storage and acoustics, and Tushar is usually on it.
Hazira Road, Surat
Where we work from.
Each office has a person, not a queue. Ask for them by name.
Mumbai
Maharashtra
Showroom & project office
Kirti Desai
Mumbai lead
Ahmedabad
Gujarat
Representative engineer
What we hold ourselves to.
Measured off a body
Heights, depths and reach distances come from how people sit, not from what is cheapest to cut.
Made, not re-badged
We manufacture. Finishes can be matched, sizes changed, and spares still exist in year seven.
Quoted, not listed
A price that ignores quantity, finish and installation is a guess. We would rather do the arithmetic.
Fixed, not replaced
Re-upholstery, new gas lifts and new castors before a skip. Cheaper for you, better for everyone.
Have a floor plan already?
Send it over with a headcount — a specifier will come back with test-fits and a costed schedule.