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Shuji Nakagawa

Oke Cooperage

, Japan

The story

He binds cedar staves with copper and not a drop of glue, coaxing the thousand-year-old rice-bucket into something a Tokyo bar would kill to chill sake in. Kyoto third-generation 'oke' cooper who modernized the traditional bentwood bucket into sculptural vessels and ice buckets.

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