- Client:
- Nakagawa Mokkougei
- Services:
- Product design
- Sector:
- Craft
- Year of completion:
- 2012
- Photography by
- Joseph Kramm
Nakagawa Mokkougei embodies the fine tradition of Kyoto wood-crafting where time-honoured skills are passed on from father to son. Shuji Nakagawa represents the third generation of the Mokkougei family business and has, together with OEO Studio, brought a new approach to the Ki-Oke tradition, a technique developed 700 years ago. The result is the Ki-Oke Stool, launched in 2012, which fuses the fine traditions of Kyoto wood-crafting with western sensibilities.
The Ki-Oke Stool has been included in the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.