Saitama-based Masanori Oji’s interests are as broad as his skillset. The handicrafts designer has experience in architecture and graphics as well as product, and after attending a workshop at a brass foundry to learn about the material, it wasn’t long until he proposed a series of product designs to the company behind the foundry.
That company is Futagami, one of the oldest brass foundries in Japan, and one that’s produced everything from ship fittings to Buddhist altar equipment. In collaboration with Oji they’ve released a beautiful line of housewares, like the dope bottle openers you see up top, and these gorgeous sets of chopstick rests below.
They also produce rests for Western cutlery…
…in addition to the cutlery itself, which is primarily brass, but silver-tipped at the business end.
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