Professionals

雲ノ平山荘

Professionals
Naoki Hanyu
Metalwork Artist
Mr. Hanyu is an artist who creates households goods with metallic materials, and since I met him at his booth in the Matsumoto Craft Fair in 2014, he became an essential being for craftsmanship in the Kumonodaira Mountain Hut. His works engender a unique atmosphere that is pleasantly comprised of natural outlook, essence of traditional crafts and geometric industrial design, etc. They are never “stylish pieces” that precede a fairy-tale-like image, but high-quality pieces with universal functionality and beauty. Mr. Hanyu and I enjoy collaborative work as I draw up a draft of a furniture whose design is a mix of wooden and metallic parts (LP player rack, dining table, handrail on the staircase, etc) and Mr. Hanyu builds them by adding his arrangement, for a piece or two of furniture every year.
Metalwork Artist

1979 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2006 Graduated with major in Craftworks (Metal), Graduate School of Tama University of Art.
2007 Founded “Studio Sunny”, a collaborated atelier in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture