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Nagomi line
THE AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FURNITURE exclusivity for Europe!
Low tables evoking the Japanese style purity and refinement
Our Nagomi low table can be used 2 ways:
Regular low table (zatakuzataku
Low table),
that you can use "Western style" in your living room, in front of your sofa.
Warming low table (kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table),
that you can use "Japanese style" in winter, as your key equipment in your living room: alltogether dining table, desk, heater, TV watching area...
We are also selling the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table accessories: floor mat, quilt, heater, etc.
Nobody who has ever enjoyed an evening underneath a kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table can stand living without it, wether you are a Japanese or a Westerner. It is difficult though to describe the feeling that kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table brings you: it is a blend of warmth, well being, nostalgia of spending a good time together with your family. "Nagomi" is a one word summary in Japanese for this well being feeling. To illustrate, an evening underneath the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table is somewhat similar to an evening next to the fireplace for Westerners.
It is a central piece of furniture in Japan, and interestingly most Japanese TV dramas or cartoons take place around the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table at one point of time. The most famous is surely Sazae-San, a cartoon that all Japanese children have been watching for over 40 years: it is well picturing that the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table is like a bond bringing the family together. The Japanese pop culture, which has become increasingly popular overseas since the 90’s through mangamanga
Comic book, cartoon and animeanime
Cartoon (animation), keeps showing the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table as a Japanese icon. Let us mention Nodame Cantabile, which mostly occurs in Europe, with Nodame and the inseparable kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table.
The table is made of 2 parts: the frame including the feet, and the top board. When you use it as a basic low table, the top bard and the frame are bolted together. When you use it as a kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table, the frame (which includes the heater) is placed on top of a thin futonfuton
Thin mattress or quilt (see long definition) (shikibuton) to insulate you from the floor, then you cover the frame with a thick futonfuton
Thin mattress or quilt (see long definition) (kakebuton) and place the board on top. The futonfuton
Thin mattress or quilt (see long definition) cover the 4 sides of the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table so that the warmth stays inside. Finally, a heating unit will be the heat source.
Nagomi kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table table is clearly THE AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FURNITURE’s exclusivity. Not only are we the only company importing kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table to Europe (as far as we know), but the model is not even for sale in Japan.
20 years ago, one could easily find premium kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table in Japan, and most production was actually made in Japan. But for cost down reasons, after the economic bubble has burst in the early 1990's, the quality has been levelled downwards (use of particle board, formica / melamin resin instead of real wood, and even metal or platics for the cheapest ones), and 90% of kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table production has been moved to South-East Asia. These low cost kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table can be compared to an electric appliance or to a camping table, not to a premium coffee table. And due to their awful style, they are usually only used in winter for the heating function (and stored away the rest of the year).
Our supplier has agreed manufacturing again one of its nicest kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table, as an exclusivity for THE AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FURNITURE, in its ShikokuShikoku
Shikoku island, South-West of Japan workshop, the historical kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table manufacturing area in Japan. Simultaneously, we have been developing a 220-230 V, CE compliant heating unit with a European supplier.
Our Nagomi low table is very stylish and you will use it all year long, as a coffee table in summer and with the kotatsukotatsu
Warming low table accessories in winter if you want. Besides, thanks to its coating, feel free to use it everyday and simply wipe it with a humid cloth or sponge. It is made for lasting.
The feet are made of the finest Japanese whisky barrel oak. Some will say that we chose this noble material, that has been maturing the best Japanese whisky for a minimum of 12 years to make our table very exclusive... Others will say that we we wanted to make a green product, by reusing material as opposed to cutting trees.
The top board structure, with an oak veneer, has been specially developed to dissipate the heat from the heater and avoid cracks or deformations.
