Thanks to Designboom founders Birgit and Massimo we toured the Milan showroom of Japanese furniture company Time & Style, a treasure-filled space we likely would have missed otherwise. The presentation was library-like, dense with materials and finishes that demanded to be touched and craftsmanship worthy of lingering scrutiny.

Time & Style, the company, is based in Asahikawa, on the island of Hokkaido, and handles production in house, from "log purchasing to lumbering, drying, woodcutting, wood assembly, polishing, and finishing." Its showroom opened in Milan in 2022.

Here are some standout pieces from our visit, first in shelving ...

... and in seating, table finish and joint details ...

... in ceramic, glass, wood, lacquer, small objects ...

If you are a frequent reader of this blog you know how the above checks many of our areas of interest: Time & Space was very much a nexus of that in the wide expanse of Milan Design Week. At the center of that was one chair in particular which we broke out to a post of its own here: A Plywood Chair That Goes Against the Grain — The Wooden Cantilever Chair from Time & Style

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