Sugi Ceader Large H400×W410×D300mm Small H300×W330×D340mm Made of Japanese cedar produced in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture. Two sets of kudu stools. They can be stacked and stored. These stools are made by hand hollowing out a huge, nearly 100-year-old tree. It can be used in a variety of ways, including as a stand for displaying houseplants or flower vases, or as a small table for children. When I visited Botswana, I saw traditional African furniture made from a single piece of wood without joints. I was impressed by this approach to woodworking, which is different from the traditional Japanese technique of jointing wood to form a shape, and this stool was born out of my desire to create a piece that utilizes the shape of a huge tree as it is. The stool is named "khudu," which means "tortoise" in Botswana, because its colonized shape looks like a tortoise.
