Founded by Japanese-born Shin Okuda, WAKA WAKA is a Los Angeles-based studio that creates handcrafted wood furniture and functional objects, including seating, utilitarian forms and space design. With a focus on using Baltic birch plywood, due to its generic utilitarian application and its superior quality for furniture making, Okuda creates designs that are simple in form, present a unique interpretation of proportion, and are finished with subtle, thoughtful details.