Collaboration of Tradition and Design
SHARAKUMONO series cooking pans are the result of collaboration between a Nambu ironware (Japanese traditional craft) company OIGEN Foundry and designer Komin Yamada. The Nambu ironware's original black and stainless silver color adds a vivid impression on the modern and stylish design. The stainless lid is manufactured by a plate manufacturing company based in Nigata Japan.
"The complicated design made our most skilled craftsmen cry," laughed Kuniko Oikawa, CEO of OIGEN Foundry. Yet the craftsmen of OIGEN responded to Yamada's professional persistence to beauty and coolness with their assured techniques.
What is Nambu ironware?
Tekki means ironware. Nambu ironware first originated in the Heian period (782-1191) in what is now Iwate Prefecture, Japan. This traditional Japanese art gained a strong reputation throughout the country in the Meiji period.
Nambu ironware is made with 75% recycled Iron!
The ironware is cast by pouring molten iron into a sand mold. Melting down old broken pots and pans and remaking them into new ones has been taken as a given since the olden days. Nambu ironware are 75% recycled products. It is said that cast-iron kitchenware can last for 100 years, and you can pass the pan down from generation to generation, along with your family recipes.
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Reina Otsuka
