TOHKA Rose Champagne Cup

This elegant champagne cup is shaped like a delicate rose bud, crafted with a technique that beautifully highlights the natural grain and contours of the wood.

Only highly skilled craftsmen can create TOHKA champagne cups with stems that are finely and elegantly turned, achieving a slender form and a cup lip that is polished to a thin, refined edge.

A seamless and durable champagne cup, as thin as glass, is made using a technique called takidori, which follows the natural grain of the wood without going against its growth direction.

Made from betula grossa, a hardwood valued for its high-class quality and excellent workability due to its elasticity, this cup enhances the mellow aroma and taste of champagne.

All GATOMIKIO products are crafted using the traditional woodturning technique called kijibiki, where logs are carefully carved into products while rotating on a lathe.

GATOMIKIO

GATOMIKIO is a brand name of company GATO MIKIO SHOUTEN, a specialist in Japanese woodworking techniques. They are especially skilled in bringing out the beauty that only natural wood grain can have. Their concentric-circle carving results in striking silhouettes.

Never compromising on quality of materials, precision of wood turning, or clarity of lacquer, GATOMIKIO creates pieces that are at once elegant, long-lasting, and functional.

GATO MIKIO SHOUTEN was originally founded as Gato Sawmill in 1908 in Yamanaka Onsen, a town famous for wood turning. Following the spirit of the original wood turners, they continue to aspire to woodworking perfection, with pieces completed individually by craftspeople.

Yamanaka lacquerware, also known as Yamanaka shikki, is a kind of lacquerware produced in the Yamanaka Onsen district of Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture. This lacquerware is unique in that it blends wood grain's natural elegance with the elegant maki-e technique of sprinkling gold, silver, or other colored powder onto a lacquer painting.

With its beautiful wood texture, delicate and robust Yamanaka lacquerware incorporates a modern sense of design while inheriting a tradition that has lasted for 400 years.