Handcrafted Tansu from Plane-Spoken Furniture Tansu is the beautiful and functional cabinetry indigenous to Japan—from simple kitchen cupboards with sliding doors to step chests that function both as storage and stairs. Consider custom tansu to store clothing, to house media, and to organize your kitchen. Plane-Spoken also designs and builds platform beds, expanding the simple futon platform to include storage and nightstand options. We are fortunate to be able to offer custom tansu hardware from chisler.net.   As a part of a bedroom suite of tansu, this stacked clothing tansu is flanked by smaller bench tansu. Found in the vesitbule of this private residence, this tansu is called a geta-bako and serves as shoe storage. Benches on either side provide seating to remove one's shoes before entering the main floor of the home. Note the shoji above the geta-bako. The lower panel slides up and down. Here it is in the up position. Used for storage and display, this tansu is styled after the large kitchen chests of Japan known as mizuya-dansu. Made from cherry and yellow cedar.     Please contact us for more ideas about how to incorporate the beauty and utility of tansu in your home or business.   Images and content ©2008 Plane-Spoken Furniture and its Licensors. All rights reserved. Web Site Design by Swartwerk Media, Inc.