[High Point, NC] Jeremy Kamiya is a nationally published, award-winning designer/maker who creates solid-wood furniture pieces without using nails, screws or stains.
”In my work, I aim to convey the labor and beauty of unification.
Where many may see a chair, I see its parts: the legs, rails, seat and back. I know the work that must be done to rough out each component from it’s raw state, and to train each to hold tight to one another.
Each component makes it’s own sacrifice. Portions of each are chiseled away, refashioned and tested for fit. When the work is complete and each part united, many pieces become One; transformed into something greater.”
No nails. No screws. No stains.
“I don’t use nails or screws in my furniture because I want my pieces to be held together according to their fit, not by force. I don’t use stains because I honor the particulate characteristics of each board I hand select.
The process is long-suffering and hard-fought but the results are honest and pure. My work is a marriage; enduring and beautiful.”
