+veve

+veve is a furniture studio in Kyoto founded in 2012 by Yoshito Dodo, who works with Kotaro Kawanabe on the collections and on custom commissions. The offer covers design proposals, technical drawings, prototypes and 3DCG as well as production, for private clients, builders, architects and fellow makers, so one workshop can follow a piece from request to finished object.

The stated aim is timeless design that can be handed down three generations, and the collection is made by hand in the workshop inside the Kyoto Tezome Senshoku Center in Sakyo-ku. Kawanabe studied at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies in Sweden and holds the Swedish Gesällprov journeyman certificate in furniture making; the studio also runs internships and works with schools on training new makers.