We first met Tok Kise while traveling through Japan a few years ago. We had heard about him and his company, Truck Furniture, through our friends Stephen & Beks, and decided to make the trip from Kyoto to Osaka just to visit.
As Tok showed us the workshop where all the furniture is made, then his office, then Bird, the coffee shop and restaurant they opened in tandem with Truck, and finally his home in the back of the property, we began to understand a measure of the depth from which all of this came. Finally, to complete the picture, Tok handed us a copy of “Nest,” the book he and his wife Hiromi had made documenting their whole journey from the very beginning.
Nest, on its own, delivers a beautiful depiction of the story of Truck. We find it heartwarming and inspiring every time we open it, because it conveys the honesty and wholeheartedness with which Tok and Hiromi (and their dogs and cats!) went about bringing this idea to life.
And now, a small part of that idea has made its way, in physical form, to Los Angeles, where Truck has a new showroom and living space.