Area Aid Design Project ｜ JDP東北茨城デザインプロモーション JDP Tohoku and Ibaraki Design Promotion

Ware Wood Work was established in 1996. It has a studio and shop to produce and sell ordermade furniture, equipment for tea ceremony practice, everyday lacquerware, and to run woodwork workshops. From 2008, Ware Wood Work started to collect lacquer sap from Japanese lacquer trees, enabling the company to cover the whole lacquerware production, from material collection, woodwork, painting and polishing inhouse. In 2010, a new lacquerware brand called "Kijian" was launched using this abundant lacquer, to promote and raise awareness of Daigo lacquerware, the highest-quality traditional lacquerware in Japan.