The cabinet's people
The Makers
Behind every curiosity is a person — a Hakone trick-box master, a Dutch machinist of aluminium mysteries, an American paper engineer who makes books bloom. These are the hands the cabinet keeps coming back to. We don't sell their work; we point you to it.
Karakuri & Secret Boxes
Akio Kamei Karakuri trick-box master · founder, Karakuri Creation Group · Hakone Hiroshi Iwahara Karakuri box maker · mechanism & mathematics · Karakuri Creation Group Yoh Kakuda Karakuri box maker · animals, stories & automata · Karakuri Creation Group Hideaki Kawashima Karakuri box maker · geometric forms & hidden compartments · Hakone / Odawara Junichi Yananose Puzzle designer · interlocking burrs, boxes & sequential discovery · Pluredro, Australia
Wooden Puzzle Boxes & Burrs
Eric Fuller Heirloom burr & puzzle-box maker · Cubicdissection · USA Robert Yarger Artisan puzzle-box maker · 'Stickman' · USA Kagen Sound Puzzle-box & puzzle-furniture craftsman · USA Brian Young Australian puzzle designer and maker behind "Mr Puzzle" New Pelikan Workshop Czech fine-wood puzzle workshop led by Jakub Dvořák
