Where to place your wooden animals? Our decorating ideas
A wooden cat meditating near a stack of books, a skunk peeking out from behind a plant: wooden animals don’t just decorate, they inhabit. Here’s how to find the right spot for them, room by room. ...
Albizia, the soft wood of T-LAB figurines
Pick up a T-LAB figurine and the first surprise is there: it weighs almost nothing. This miracle of lightness has a name, albizia, a light and soft wood that gives the collection all its character...
KOTORI: the little wooden birds from T-LAB
Place one on the shelf and it calls the others. The KOTORI birds from T-LAB, kotori means little bird in Japanese, form a pocket aviary: sparrow, tits, parakeet, each with its own plumage, each wi...
Pole Pole: designed in Japan, hand-carved in Bali
On the workbench, a wooden monkey holds its little one close. Two black silhouettes, four round eyes, and all the tenderness in the world in a few centimeters of wood. Behind this apparent simplic...
T-LAB Wooden Animal Figurines: The Pole Pole Collection Guide
A bear lifting its snout, a sitting panda, a cat smiling with closed eyes: T-LAB wooden figurines have the power to soothe an entire room. Designed in Japan, hand-carved in Bali, they make up the ...
Which TOYO STEEL toolbox should you choose? T190, T320, Y350, and others
All share the same stamped steel and the same Osaka design, but between the mini COBAKO and the Y410 chest, there is a world. Here’s how to choose your TOYO STEEL box without mistake, size by size...
The TOYO STEEL metal toolbox: the guide
Some objects transcend trends without moving an inch. The TOYO STEEL metal toolbox, designed in Japan, is one of them: a pressed steel sheet, rounded corners, a snapping clasp, and colors that mak...
KAMADOSAN: what alternative? The Japanese rice cooker PETARI
The KAMADOSAN introduced many of us to the taste of rice cooked in Japanese clay, that swollen and shiny grain that no electric rice cooker truly replicates. The brand is no longer restocked with ...
COBAKO: the small metal toolbox from TOYO STEEL
Looking for a small toolbox worthy of the name and you’ll quickly come across it: the COBAKO by TOYO STEEL, a mini stamped steel case that stores glasses as well as screwdrivers. Proof that pocket...
TOYO STEEL, Osaka steel since 1969
Some objects tell forty years of workshops just by looking at them. This blue box, dented and repainted by time, comes from the presses of Osaka just like the ones we sell today. Here is the story...
What to store in a metal toolbox? Our ideas
A good box calls for contents. And while TOYO STEEL’s stamped steel has won over workshops, it has also conquered offices, kitchens, and travel bags. Here’s what our customers really store in thei...
The KAKIMORI Letter Writing Set: Japanese-style correspondence
In an age of disappearing messages, a letter remains. We keep it, reread it, recognize a handwriting. KAKIMORI supports this rare gesture with papers you want to fill. The pleasure of a handwritte...
The KAKIMORI aluminum pen: ballpoint, fountain, rollerball
Some pens are forgotten at the bottom of a drawer, others become companions. The KAKIMORI aluminum pen belongs to the second family, sober, just right, designed to stay in hand for a long time. A ...
The custom KAKIMORI notebook (and the A5 size)
A new notebook is a promise. Blank pages waiting for a list, a sketch, a morning thought. KAKIMORI has built its reputation on this intimate object, leaving it to each person to make it their own....
KAKIMORI inks and the inkstand: custom Japanese ink
A color is never completely neutral. It speaks of a season, a mood, a memory. KAKIMORI understands this and makes ink a small territory of emotion, between house shades that carry a name and a wor...
Writing with a pen with KAKIMORI: nibs, pen holders, and dip pens
There is a gesture that slows down time: dipping a nib into ink, placing it on paper, and watching the line emerge. At KAKIMORI, writing with a nib is not a constraint, it is a pleasure we give ou...
KAKIMORI: The Guide to Japanese Stationery
KAKIMORI is a Japanese writing tools house located in Kuramae, a craftsman district in Tokyo. Its writing shop opened in 2010 around a simple idea: to bring back the joy of writing, and the brand ...
Washi Paper, the Exceptional Japanese Paper
Washi paper, handmade Japanese paper: production, qualities, uses, and the Yame washi used in our TORCHIN lamps.