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Our suppliers
THE AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FURNITURE has selected its suppliers among the few furniture craftsmen remaining today in Japan. They obviously focus on designing and making furniture for the most demanding customers, who are looking for top quality furniture.
Our craftsmen-suppliers, yesterday and today...
(furniture making, lacquering, iron fittings carving)
Our whole furniture is made in Japan, by our craftsmen-suppliers based in the Japan furniture birthplaces:
- TôhokuTôhoku
Region in the North of Japan, birthplace of tansu crafting area, North of Japan, particularly around SendaiSendai
City: Sendai, prefecture: Miyagi, region: Tôhoku and NihonmatsuNihonmatsu
City: Nihonmatsu, region: Tôhoku, cities valued for their tansutansu
Japanese chest, generally speaking piece of furniture for a storage purpose. Tough winters have shaped the famous AizuAizu
Aizuwakamatsu surroundings, region : Tôhoku keyakikeyaki
Zelkova (Japanese elm), very dense wood, with beautiful wood grain, used in Japan for premium wooden goods-trees which are used in our furniture. - ShizuokaShizuoka
City: Shizuoka, prefecture: Shizuoka, region: Chûbu prefecture, center of Japan, which was known during the feudal period as SurugaSuruga
City: Shizuoka, prefecture: Shizuoka, region: Chûbu. It is Mount Fuji’s prefecture. - KagawaKagawa
Shikoku island, South-West of Japan prefecture on ShikokuShikoku
Shikoku island, South-West of Japan Island, the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table birthplace.
Our tansutansu
Japanese chest, generally speaking piece of furniture for a storage purpose craftsmen-suppliers are usually small familly companies, which started in MeijiMeiji
Period from 1868 to 1912 or TaishôTaishô
Period from 1912 to 1926 eras. Each supplier hand crafts between 100 and 200 tansutansu
Japanese chest, generally speaking piece of furniture for a storage purpose per year. Craftsmen are key persons, and thanks to their high skills they can realize order-made. Our most upscale tansutansu
Japanese chest, generally speaking piece of furniture for a storage purpose require up to 4 month worth of work. When you visit our craftsmen’s workshop, it is like going back in the past. The electric lighting is one of the few modern equipments, among the traditional tools.
As for kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table, this is a semi-industrial production, as volumes are usually higher than for traditional tansutansu
Japanese chest, generally speaking piece of furniture for a storage purpose.
Finally, as for antique furniture, we have selected a few suppliers in Japan for their knowledge of antiques, their product offer, and their ability to repair the furniture with traditional techniques when necessary.
Here are pictures that we took in our craftsmen's workshops. You can see that our craftsmen are as passionate in 2012 as their ancestors were during MeijiMeiji
Period from 1868 to 1912 era, and also that technics remain traditional. This is definitely not an industrial manufacturing, and you can confirm the high quality material they are using. You can feel the Mingei spirit, with the material (wood, lacquer, steel) the craftsmen, the tool and the "objet" forming one whole, and none of them would make sense on its own.
- Lacquer filtering
- Ready to use lacquer
- Lacquering with a knife
- Lacquering with a brush
- Wiping
- In process lacquer and pigments
- Lacquering tools
- Muro
- Muro preparation
- Drying in muro
- Polishing coal & stones
- Wiped lacquer polishing
- Glossy lacquer polishing
- Iron fittings cutting & graving
- Iron fittings set-up
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