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Design Highlights

!¡ Cabinet

A sliding door cabinet designed with the bronze and golden ratios as design principles.

Piscean Table

A table built for a staircase landing and therefore intended to reveal itself gradually as one walks upstairs.

Chest of Drawers for Bianka

Chest with drawers built based on the (now largely forgotten) NK drawer construction principles.

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I try not to spam your feed so just a reminder that you have 1 day left to order your Ts, sweatshirts and hoodies. I doubt I will be doing the same designs again so if you want one (or more), now is the time. Here’s what that blade I restored on Sunday was for: conditioning soles of kanna dai. Before and after, with some steps in between. ~ Keep failing ~ Studio ASAGI Spring pop-up shop open NOW for 3 weeks only! For today’s #woodlibraryfriday, a catalogue of 100 Japanese antique chests published by the Furniture Museum in Tokyo in 1986. A wee preview of what is dropping on 20 March, the first day of Spring. You may have seen the original drawings I made for this, a couple of posts ago. I have had this blonde suita for a good while. It did not get any real use until recently, because I bought it in a rougher shape than most new stones arrive in. I wish I had taken a photo of how uneven the surface was initially but I did not really have the foresight. Some of you will have seen me working on one of these graphics maybe a week ago on stories. This is a sneak peek of something round the corner.

Carving

Carving is a therapeutic endeavour for me, mostly separate from my furniture design work.