#83 Small Kokeshi Vessel with Horizontal Stripes akio-everyday-2024 Designed for storing and preserving

Designed for storing and preserving food sustainably and beautifully—made of unbleached cotton and accented by easy drawstrings

Others will notice a much warmer

I began with seed

From the most requested—the Morning Bun—to new ingredients

#83 Small Kokeshi Vessel with Horizontal Stripes akio-everyday-2024 Designed for storing and preservingAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. This piece features his signature Pleated Work technique of carving grooves into the wet clay after it is thrown on the wheel. The forminspired by traditional kokeshi dollsis accentuated by these grooves curving down the profile of the vessel creating movement and rhythm. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different