Trip Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) Short video on a family Shoji shop in NYC...http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/smallbusiness/100000003867935/the-art-of-shoji.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=timesvideo-heading&module=watch-in-times-video®ion=video-player-region&WT.nav=video-player-region Link to their photo gallery: http://www.miyashoji.com/photos/ Edited September 23, 2015 by hhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) Thanks for posting this Trip. Videos like this make you want to just spend more time in the shop. Looking through some of the photo gallery, I wonder if they make most of their own tools, I would be interested to know. Edited September 23, 2015 by Chet K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 Fantastic. I love seeing stuff like this. Thanks for posting Trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Cool video! Thanks for sharing hhh ! Sent from my SM-P550 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 I love catching glimpses of people like them. It reminds me that the world is not the cesspool it appears to be. Thanks Trip, made my evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 I would love to be granted to hang around the shop for a few days and just learn.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Wait so these guys like beautiful wood and never really learned business by their own admission... I wonder if they just recently traded for a used Unisaw... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 (edited) ==>Wait so these guys like beautiful wood and never really learned business by their own admission...That’s really the point of the NYT’s Entrepreneurship Series – highlight small businesses that succeed with (or despite?) a simple operating philosophy. Running a bespoke furniture studio for 60 years in Manhattan can’t be all that easy... He must be doing something right... The other videos in the series are similar -- small businesses succeeding -- but more with an 'idea' than a business plan... The video on Skully Systems is interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/smallbusiness/100000003846742/brothers-of-invention.html?playlistId=1194811665308 Captured some of Chosuke Miyahira's quotes... There might be something in them for a hobby-come-small-business guy who doesn’t want to perpetuate Shaker, Mission or Ikea-esque occasional pieces... Very Soul of the Tree, which is worth reading..."With nature, it’s easy. We don’t have to work anything; we don’t have to design anything: Just find old nice wood. Slice it --- beautiful – you use it. If not beautiful, you don’t use it. It’s very simple.""Woodworking business like bicycle... You peddle, bicycle can move – no profit. But sometimes, downhill come – you don’t have to peddle and bicycle still go, then hit the bottom. You have to get off and push the bicycle. Business like this." Makes up and down motion..."Family don’t have business mind, profit mind – just art stuff... We never learn business, more craftsman..." BTW: notice how he checked the plane iron edge with a loop... And, while appearing deceptively simple, that Tatami platform bed looked better then anything I could make... http://www.miyashoji.com/futon/ Edited September 24, 2015 by hhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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