883 takes you everywhere you want!

"No.883".
This number makes motorbike riders so exciting.
"833" can be recognized as the famous model of Harley Davidson Motorbike. Many riders are dreaming to ride it and feel the sound of it's special vibration of this 883- V2 engine.

The small bar named "Stand No.883" is open in KOBE Japan. The Harley's V-2 "883 engine is displayed in the facade window of the entrance and you can see the view of inside overlapping with it. The Inside,the long counter made with Evano Macassar veneer is set straightened from the 883 engine. It is really seems like the highway road for run!

This bar is designed and produced by Japanese Architectural Designer Hiroyuki Saeki (MOUSETRAP Co,.Ltd). According to the request from the client who loves the Harley Davidson Motorbike, he decided to display this 883"engine in the facade of the bar. The lighting effect is well considered to show up the items and it helps making the calm atmosphere for bar space.Particularly, the height of the long counter is set into 883mm high which is little bit lower than the standard height ,but this eccentric idea develop the good relationship and easy communication between the bartender and guests.

With those unique design work under Mr.Saeki, the bar have strong character and be crowded with the guest every night.The guest must be so satisfied with this good atmosphere which must be so comfortable like they are charmed with the sounds of Harley Davidson engine!

White sapwood fly with Bride

The Wedding.
Whether you have been dreaming of it since age four or have yet to give it much thought, seeing yourself in a wedding dress for the first time can be a wonderfully disarming moment.

Japanese Interior Designer Michio Anazawa (Design applet) designed and produced the Bridal Salon in THE BRIGHT GARDEN MATSUMOTO in Nagano Japan. The salon is shown well elegantly with high scene furniture and displays.
Mr. Anazawa chosen the Perparosa and Macassa-Rose veneers for the material of wall-decollating and furniture. Especially the Perparosa (quarter sliced)veneer was delivered to the wall-panel spliced with random-match including the white sap. Particularly it's white sap shows the characteristic and beautiful white-line add to it's own warmly light-brown texture. It look like the Angel Wings are flying! And this beautiful veneered-made texture also works well to make the white wedding dresses stand out.


Many dreaming ladies and girls would visit this Bridal Salon and once they would come into this space, their bridal dreaming must fly higher with the White Feather of Perparosa!!

travel around the world in one day!

In Japanese veneer market, many precious veneers are distributed through the auction marketting system.This kind of auctions are held mostly every month and various species more than 500logs and the quantity of more than 600,00meter squares of veneers are bid and sold. And they are delivered to all around Japan through this marketing channel.


Osaka Veneer Market Association,the biggest Veneer Auction Center in Japan is organized and run under the capable leadership of it's Chairman Mr.Kazuhiko Matsuda(He is also the board member of National Veneer Market Association of Japan) and he is really the man who have been leading the Japanese Veneer Market.
He is not the Architectural or Interior Designer, just the professional of veneer manufacturing, but the trend of veneer in Japan is in the hand of him and it may fairly be said that he is the designer of Japanese veneer market.



"The National Veneer Exhibition" ,the most biggest auction is held in March every year, and most of veneer manufacture in Japan would exhibit their precious veneers with so amazing quantity of 2,000logs, 3,000,000m2 veneers would be gathered.
This year the 30th National Veneer Exhibition would be held in Osaka(March 11th-14th INTEX OSAKA). Mr.Matsuda would be the responsibility person and his highly ability would be expected. The delegate of ordinary people would be able to visit this exhibition, so why don't you designer visit there where the previous world wood veneer will meet together in one place. So you will save the time to travel around the world for finding your own veneers !!

New design always comes from BREAKTHOUGH!

The veneer combine with the other material, it shows the different impression as usual.
Japanese Architectural Designer Toshitaka Nagata(Design GRIP) shows the Evano Veneer with cylindrical stainless steels and glass was inserted.
This cylinder and the glass helps veneered panels to show it's dignified atmosphere, and this layer of different material make the unique and beautiful harmony of it's design.

This year, I met him in Salone in Milano ,and also in Interzum in Koln! He have studied the architectural design in college and still have strong passion and attitude to study more by several trip to abroad in order to inspect and study what's going on in abroad, and his past good designed projects evidence his high ability.

Mr.Nagata, he is sure to be the one of the hopeful artitectural designer in Japan ,and who must break through the future of veneered design scene like it's glitter stainless holes!!

WABI-SABI

Interior Designer Shuhei Sasaoka ( Design Office WASABI) had been independent from other Design Office, and he have just established his own design office named WASABI which name come from the view of Wabi-Sabi sprits.

Wabi-Sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" .

The words wabi and sabi do not translate easily.Wabi now connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects, or understated elegance.Sabi is beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of the object and its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear, or in any visible repairs.

Mr.Sasaoka asked us to deliver the veneered panel for the big-long table in his new office,and we were satisfied to choose " White Plain Sycamore veneer" for it. The Plain-Sycamore, it has just the simple soft grain on the natural-white texture, very simple, not decorative one.But we both agreed that this simple, beauty wooden texture must suited to his "Wabi-Sabi concept".

Now,his new designs are planing on this big wabi-sabi-table,so we can not miss his coming projects based on his sensibility harmonized of Japanes old and new culture.

The TOKYO-BAY DREAM

This is the hidden house where you can see the beautiful view of Tokyo Bay.
This room is owned by one dandy gentleman who is looking foward to watching the "TOKYO Bay Fireworks Festival" tonight from his room top above 36nd floors.
This room was designed by Mr.Michio Anazawa ( designapplet )and he tells the story of this project that "The only request from the cliente is to set up the place with enough atmosphere in order to display his various collections of arts." Evano Veneer was adopted as the one of the material to work for it.
This story tells the particular dream of Tokyo successor and it shows the "Dream of Modern Tokyo Life Style".


Mr.Michio Anazawa who made this dandy's dream is one of the new noteworthy interior designer in Tokyo as a hot stock. He runs his designing works under the name of "designapplet".
"applet" is now well used as the software component language like "Java applet",and it can run in the context of another program. It is just the small device, but it's works making the unimaginable world. It's the same as designers works!

According to the weather focus in Tokyo, it is getting fine and no crowds at night.
Tonight, many fireworks wil be sparking on and Mr.Anazawa's applet-program will start to run!

veneer meets afro-music!

Just the simple rectanglar box, but it plays a cool but very hot sound!!

Before you read further article,you must click here to hear his voice.

How nice sound he made!!

He is Cajon ,the music instrument most widely used as a Afro-Peruvian percussion which was developed in costal Peru in early 1800's, and now it is getting well known music instrument not only for Latin Rumba music but also the sound have been brought into the Flamenco music. Also,in recent years, due to such a hot sound and it's handiness, the Street-Musicians welcome this Cajon to their music instrument for playing it's wonderful rhythms

Mr.Yoshiro Aonuma (ARCO Percussion Co,.ltd)the Japanese leading Cajon manufacturer adopt our various veneers for it. We have great respect for his inquiring mind making the better sound with it. His Cajon is decorated with the several kinds of natural veneer. But we are surprised his message that " Veneer is not only it's decoration, even though the veneer is very thick, different veneer makes different sound. It's characteristic reflect on the sound and each veneer makes different sound.Quite difference compared with the non veneered plain plywood." Through htis opportunity,meeting with him makes us realizing again the interest of natural-veneers.

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Have you ever heard the voice of Zebrano Tree?