Jun Nakano

Jun Nakano is a Japanese furniture maker and woodcraft artist working in Sanda, in Hyogo Prefecture, where he runs JunWoodworkingLab. The workshop is deliberately neither a shop nor a showroom: there is no standard range and no stock, only one-off pieces made for a specific person and a specific space.

His work moves between furniture (chairs, tables and desks, storage) and woodcraft, and he trained in the classical Japanese disciplines of kurimono carving, sashimono joinery and hikimono turning, techniques he tries to push forward rather than repeat. Chairs are dimensioned to the body of the person who will use them, tables are made mostly in solid wood and finished with oil or wiped urushi lacquer, and storage is built to measure, sometimes to be assembled on site.