METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPRESSED WOOD PRODUCT

A compressed wood product having a three-dimensional shape including a curved face and having excellent dimensional stability and design is provided. There are: softening a blank formed of a substantially bowl-shaped wood; compressing the blank, the compressing being deforming the blank that has been softened into a substantially bowl shape different from that before the softening, by applying a compressive force to the blank; fixing the shape of the blank that has been deformed in the compressing by applying the compressive force; drying the blank having the shape that has been fixed in the fixing; and heat-shaping the blank, the heat-shaping being shaping the blank that has been dried in the drying into a shape substantially similar to the shape of the blank while heating the blank in the ambient air. The blank after the drying and before the heat-shaping has an inner face of the substantially bowl shape, the inner face having a shape closer to a final shape to be achieved after the heat-shaping than a shape of an outer face of the substantially bowl shape, and a surface area of the outer face is larger than a surface area of an outer face of the final shape.