DEN Lacquered Glass

The DEN brand was born through the collaboration of a workshop for high quality lacquerware and Japanese designer Satoshi Umeno. Traditional crafts from Takaoka city using abalone shell and Japanese lacquer have been applied to glass.

The result is a unique set of modern tableware applying Japanese esthetics to contemporary glassware. A simple design of black or red lacquer on transparent glass with a small silver accent using abalone shell. Due to its unique design DEN tableware can be combined with Western or Asian style table decoration.

Satoshi Umeno worked on urban design and furniture projects before starting his own design company UMENODESIGN in 2003. Currently based in Tokyo Umeno continues to release titles in Japan and abroad.

His interests and work cover broad fields such as interior, fashion, web, graphic and many more.