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Office · Japan · Timber

Tachibana Shoten — a timber merchant’s showroom of chestnut

Tachibana Shoten, a timber merchant founded more than 110 years ago, specialises in naguri, chestnut wood worked with an adze and chisel. designers Koizumi and Anezaki of SWING renovated the 28 m² office in a corner of its workshop and fitted out a meeting room that doubles as a showroom.

Client Tachibana Shoten (橘商店)Completed May 2022Floor area about 28 m²Design Koizumi / Anezaki (SWING)
The meeting room
The meeting room

Concept

For visitors

The company now also stocks many boards for counters. Designers and builders often visit to see the wood and talk, so a meeting room with a showroom function was added.

The corridor
The corridor
The corridor
The corridor

01 · Chestnut

Grain, knots and widths

Walls, ceiling, tables and chairs all use the company’s chestnut. Straight grain and flat grain, knots, widths and thicknesses show how the use of the wood changes the result.

The meeting room
The meeting room
The meeting room
The meeting room
The meeting room
The meeting room

02 · Office

Desks in the workshop

The office corner was reorganised. In the evenings the showroom and the workshop next door are used together for events, and people who love wood gather there.

The office
The office
The office
The office
The office
The office
The office
The office
CompanyTachibana Shoten ↗
DesignSWING
PhotographyShigeo Ogawa
SourceTECTURE, “橘商店”, re-reported by WALL ↗
PublishedOctober 2026

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