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Japanese wood furniture maker. We work with select furniture lighting and tableware makers manufacturing in japan to carry their products as well as to develop. We strive to create the antiques of the future as a collaborative integrated process where designer and maker work hand in hand. Along with wharton esherick sam maloof and wendell castle nakashima was an artisan who disdained industrial methods and materials in favor of a personal craft based approach to the design. Order no 1702 kigumi table wood.
The best wood comes from the center of the forest and is cut the same way that the wood grows. The store s range of custom made furniture is at once striking and humble powerful and subtle. A master woodworker and m i t trained architect george nakashima was the leading light of the american studio furniture movement.
Ookkuu pronounced as oh koo is derived from the japanese word oku which means depth and profundity. George katsutoshi nakashima japanese. Satoshi yamauchi is a japanese furniture maker with over 18 years of woodworking experience. Founded by george nakashima we continue to custom mill sustainably harvested hardwoods and select the resulting planks individually for each project.
Miya shoji uses wood from japan the northeastern u s and elsewhere. Nakashima furniture is one of a kind hand crafted and made to order at our workshop in new hope pennsylvania. Our mission is to provide deeper and lasting quality. We strive to make furniture as closely as possible to the way it was designed and made during my father s time altered only to adapt to available materials dimensional requirements or improvements to structure.
Yusuke produces wooden utensils plates vessels and furniture at his studio think forest in ebina kanagawa prefecture.