Cultural sourcing for
intentional spaces

Most children learn the world through classrooms and playgrounds. Shunsuke Wada learned it through the smell of warm brass, the ringing of hammer against tagane, and the slow miracle of watching a flat sheet of metal become something with a face, a fury, a spirit of its own.

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His studio was born in 1919, founded by his great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather in Takaoka, a city in Toyama Prefecture where metalwork is not simply an industry but an identity. Takaoka is home to Takaoka Douki, one of Japan’s most celebrated copper alloy craft traditions — a 400-year-old heritage that lives in the city's hands, its air, and its sense of itself.