Born in Matsumoto, Nagano, in 1988. After studying at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute and elsewhere, Ishibashi has been working in Saitama since 2015.

The guiding words are “color for everyday life.” From small bowls and sake cups for the table to seasonal decorations such as hina dolls and kagami-mochi, everything is made of glass.

Multi-floral honey gathered over a whole year by Japanese honeybees in the hills and fields of Kyoto.

The bees are raised without chemicals and the honey is harvested only once a year. It is not heated: the honey that drips from the comb is bottled just as it is.

kico reproduces the traditional azuma bag for modern times, using kimono — a Japanese treasure lying dormant throughout the country. The azuma bag is said to have begun in the Edo period, when townspeople who admired Western bags imitated them with furoshiki and tenugui.

There are two kinds: all-over patterns made from one kimono, and two-tone bags that combine two kimono. Only one or one and a half bags can be made from a single kimono, so almost no two are alike — each one is one of a kind.