ENWA

ENWA pieces aren't decorated into existence — they're uncovered by taking away. Edges dissolved through hundreds of studies until there was nothing left to remove. The profile looks sharp from across the room; run your hand along it and the surface never breaks.

The Ishi stool is the idea at its smallest: solid oak, finished on every side, soft everywhere the palm lands. Of every stool entered to the SIT Furniture Design Award this year, the jury named one.

This is not a rounded corner. A fillet is a radius placed on a hard shape after the fact. An ENWA curve begins before you see it and continues after the eye expects it to stop — there is no point where the surface suddenly changes direction.

Hundreds of iterations give the line its accuracy; the hand removes the evidence of the machine. Run your hand from the top into the leg. That quiet transition is the design.

We choose FAS-grade white oak for the parts your hand returns to — the highest appearance grade milled. Boards under 100mm, alternating grain, both faces sealed. Not veneer over a core: solid through the full section.

Solid oak ages by gaining a surface, then giving it back: sand, re-oil, restore. The material is not a finish. It is the life of the piece — restored instead of replaced.