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Workshop dossier
Kyoto · Est. 2014
Kura Studio's founder Mihoko Tanaka trained as a tea-house carpenter before turning to furniture. Each of her tables is drawn to the proportions of the room it will inhabit. Her pieces use only hand-cut joinery and never receive a synthetic finish.
No. 01
Good Design Award
No. 02
Kyoto Prefecture Heritage Maker
The collection
4 pieces · authored work
Low-line tables informed by tea-house proportions.
Workshops sharing the floor
Oslo
Norwegian hardwood seating from a workshop on the Akerselva.
Open the workshopParis
Hand-tied upholstered seating in the eighth arrondissement.
Open the workshopCopenhagen
Modular shelving systems sized to the wall, not the room.
Open the workshopBrooklyn
Metal-and-wood production in a shared waterfront foundry.
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Lighting from a Provençal studio of three.
Open the workshopBerlin
Stone & marble pieces from a quarry-side studio.
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