2020.12.27

Autumn and Winter

A quiet winter night. I spend my time watching the fire of the wood stove. I pray that everyone who is struggling with Corona's disaster will return to a peaceful life as soon as possible.
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2020.9.23

Atelier and showroom

Insulation work and wooden skeleton work of the atelier are in progress. Since the natural environment in winter is particularly harsh in Hokkaido, the shape and specifications of the building are determined by the restrictions of the natural environment such as the cold winter and wind and snow.
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2020.9.20

School for life

We held a workshop to make butter knives with Compass, who presides over the "School of Life" modeled on the Nordic Danish folk high school in Higashikawa Town.
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2020.8.24

Summer vacation

The renovation work of the old house is almost finished (although the interior is still under construction...).
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2020.8.24

skåp

The "skåp" is the first cabinet made at E10 workshop with Satoshi Endo of "enao".
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2020.6.27

Moving from Kuramae

I have withdrawn the showroom and atelier in Kuramae, Taito-ku, where I spent about eight years as a workplace from 2012.
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2020.6.14

Exhibition booth at Asahikawa Design Center

monokraft joined the Asahikawa Furniture Association as "E10" with furniture workshop enao. We were able to set up an exhibition booth for "E10" in the Asahikawa Design Center.
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2020.6.1

Price revision notice

The prices of chairs and tables have been revised due to rising material prices and changes in production workshop. Please check the detail page of each product.

2020.5.20

Dining board

We made a dining board that combines legs made by welding iron L angles and a box of walnut veneer plywood with solid walnut top.
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2020.5.15

2 houses in Shinkawa

I designed two houses in Shinkawa, Mitaka City, Tokyo. The site located on a gentle slope to the southwest with a landscape of an orchard and a shrine forest on the south side. The approach to the entrance is slightly different, but the two floor plans are almost the same. The exterior roof slope was planned to correspond to the slope of the landscape.
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2020.4.15

Furnitures for Aramaki otolaryngology

Monokraft made furnitures for Aramaki otolaryngology clinic next to Aramaki dental clinic which we made furnitures in 2018. The architecture at the Taisho era was quite old and the interior renovation design was done by Moriko Kira, a Netherlands based architect. It was designed with the concept of keeping old things as much as possible and reusing them.
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2020.4.10

Commerce office furniture

I designed a small office where 15 people work in an office building in Kodenmacho, Tokyo. Oak wooden flooring and furniture were used to gently partition the room to create a space.
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2020.1.1

Greetings

monokraft wishes you a very happy new year. This year we plan to make a place　like a showroom, a guest house and office in Higashikawa.
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