Japandi Home Decor Brands Worth Knowing

Founded in Shiga, Japan in 1972, Kinto has spent five decades making objects for everyday rituals — tea, coffee, water, food storage — with a design language rooted in Japanese functional minimalism. Their UNITEA and POUROVER systems have become reference objects in the Japandi home: visible without demanding attention, functional without being clinical. Their US store ships the full catalog stateside.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2005 by Trine Andersen, Ferm Living grew from a small graphic design project into one of the most recognized Scandinavian interiors brands globally. Their work sits squarely in the hygge tradition — warm textures, considered forms, a strong point of view about how a home should feel rather than simply look. Everything ships DTC through their international store.

The Citizenry was started in 2014 with a simple idea: work directly with artisan communities around the world and sell their work at honest prices online. Their product range bridges Japandi aesthetics from two directions — Japanese craft traditions in their ceramics and wood objects, and Nordic warmth in their textiles. Every piece ships with provenance information about the maker.

Yield Design operates out of Brooklyn with a focus on ceramics and kitchen objects that value function and material honesty over decoration. Their work leans toward the wabi-sabi end of the Japandi spectrum — unglazed rims, natural variation in finish, forms that feel like they were turned by a human hand. The brand sells direct and makes limited collections seasonally.

Hawkins New York launched in 2010 with a focus on well-designed kitchen and home objects sold at accessible prices. Their product range — bread bags, dough tools, ceramics, linens — reads like an inventory of things that make a Japandi kitchen functional. The aesthetic is clean, practical, and deliberately undecorated, which is the point.

Tortoise is a Silver Lake, Los Angeles shop that has been importing and curating Japanese goods — tools, ceramics, textiles, skincare, stationery — since 2008. Their online store is one of the best single-source edits of authentic Japanese lifestyle objects available in the US. Nothing here is manufactured-to-aesthetic; everything is simply what people in Japan actually use.

Moebe was founded in Copenhagen in 2014 by a trio of architects and designers who believed that good furniture should adapt to how you actually live rather than force you to redecorate around it. Their shelving systems, frames, and pendants are modular by design — add a shelf, move a module, change the configuration without tools. The materials are honest: solid oak, solid walnut, powder-coated steel, hand-blown glass.