From rice basin to champagne cooler: Updating a well established Japanese specialty

Art in Japan has a long convention and history. Included are craftsmanship by an individual or a gathering, and art is work created by autonomous studio craftsmen, working with customary specialty materials as well as procedures. Not happy with simply making wooden vessels for utilitarian reasons for putting away water, miso or rice, Shuji Nakagawa is refreshing the hundreds of years old craft of ki-oke to work as wine and champagne coolers. S....