Collaborating Globally

Time & Style collaborates on numerous projects with renowned architects, interior designers, and international companies worldwide. Furniture, lighting, tableware, and items such as wooden trays, lacquerware, ceramics, and glassware crafted in Japan are supplied to hotels, restaurants, offices, retail shops, and residential projects across the globe.

High Quality and Flexibility

Products for projects are crafted by hundreds of skilled artisans and experienced partner factories across Japan, including the Time & Style Factory in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Each production process is divided into specialized stages, where specialists contribute their expertise to bring a product to life.

We accommodate small production runs and discuss every detail of product specifications, ensuring meticulous craftsmanship using high-quality Japanese materials. The range of our products extends from custom-made furniture to wooden hotel trays, Japanese lacquerware, ceramics, and glassware, all carefully crafted to meet the diverse needs of our clients.

Craftsmanship and Materials

Japan is home to a wide range of traditional crafts and handwork. With crafts like barrel-making, metal casting, metalworking, spinning, washi paper lanterns, lacquerware, and ceramics, as well as advanced woodworking techniques such as bentwood, joinery, and lathe-turning, the country boasts an extraordinary variety of craftsmanship rarely found elsewhere in the world.

Japan is also known for its many region-specific materials. By understanding the nature of each project and product, we are able to propose processing techniques, materials, and finishes that align with the project’s design and purpose.

Craftsmanship is a cultural tradition deeply embedded in every region of the country, and Time & Style cherishes this tradition. We believe that using high-quality materials native to each area and employing appropriate local production methods is a rational, economical, and sustainable approach.

Moreover, Japanese manufacturing thrives on collaboration. Teams of artisans and workshops are organized to match the requirements and scale of each project, whether it involves creating a single bespoke item or managing a complex undertaking. This unified effort, supported by extensive expertise, is one of the defining strengths of Japan’s approach to craftsmanship.

At its core, monozukuri—the Japanese philosophy of meticulous craftsmanship and dedication to creating high-quality products—is not merely about production, but embodies respect for materials, skills, and collaboration. Time & Style believes that Japanese monozukuri is an essential activity, deeply local yet embracing a universal perspective that reflects the essence of thoughtful and meaningful creation.