Japanese Furniture Makers

Tokyo s small homes and japan s unique aesthetic are a perfect microcosm for a furniture style that focuses on functionality and simplicity with a timeless style.

Japanese furniture makers. Satoshi is originally from japan now based in hawaii. George katsutoshi nakashima japanese. During the summer of 1950 a brief collaboration with sculptor isamu noguchi resulted in the bamboo basket chair. He is a passionate and meticulous artisan whose state of the art furniture is one of the finest on the island.

Satoshi yamauchi brings his 18 years of experience in japanese. Desks 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 mira nakashima. 中島勝寿 nakashima katsutoshi may 24 1905 june 15 1990 was an american woodworker architect and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the american craft movement. Nakashima furniture is one of a kind hand crafted and made to order at our workshop in new hope pennsylvania.

They aspire to making furniture that creates a comfortable living space and will continue to be loved as a lifelong partner. He embraced westernism as part of his move to create what he called japanese modern furniture. He works with koa monkeypod mango and other beautiful wood such as walnut. 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 what sets nakashima apart is the poetic style of his work his reverence.

The karimoku brand has been firmly established as a synonym of fine quality furniture and proof of reliable furniture a reputation that it has maintained to this day. Our products exemplify refinement utility and integrity and are designed for both commercial and home use. Konno received the young japanese design talent 2009 from elle deco japan and has worked on a variety. We work with select furniture lighting and tableware makers manufacturing in japan to carry their products as well as to develop new products.

We specialize in quality made in japan interior products. Custom furniture made by furniture maker satoshi yamauchi in honolulu hawaiii. A master woodworker and m i t trained architect george nakashima was the leading light of the american studio furniture movement. Hiromichi konno studied product design at the chiba institute of technology and at the umeå university in sweden where he met ross lovegrove and went on to work with his design studio in london konno founded his own independent studio in 2002 in london and opened his tokyo studio in 2008.