Linda Fahey
Ceramicist
Linda created the hand-formed ceramic tile panels with embedded reflective glass — tiles that catch and scatter light across the room. Her work lives at the intersection of functional and sculptural.
Who We Are
About Shokunin
A Bay Area community rooted in craft, built on trust, and dedicated to the artisans and designers who make the city feel alive.
What We Stand For
Core Values
We continue the ideas of apprenticeship and mastery of craft within a modern context of inclusivity, skill-building, and community effort.
Trust
Building genuine trust between artisans, clients, and designers — the foundation of every lasting collaboration.
Sharing
Sharing opportunities and knowledge so the challenges we face as individuals are faced together by all of us.
Mentorship
Guiding the next generation of artisans through apprenticeship, continuing a tradition of craft mastery.
Craft
Maintaining professionalism and deep dedication in the artistic process — honoring the work and those who make it.
Our Pillars
Where Craft Finds Its Next Hands
We bring our mission to life across five interconnected pillars — each one a different way of making craft visible, transferable, and alive.
01
Community Building
Regular group gatherings create the relational foundation everything else depends on. When artisans, designers, and mentees know each other, collaboration becomes natural rather than transactional.
Monthly group meetings
02
Hands-On Education
In-person workshops are the most direct expression of our mission. Each session immerses participants in a craft process — building a growing curriculum across disciplines like suminagashi, enameling, and weaving.
Workshop series
03
Artisan–Designer Connection
Bridging two worlds that rarely meet on equal footing. Curated sample kits give designers a tactile introduction to an artisan's process — growing over time into a formal pairing and commission pipeline.
Artisan sample kits for designers
04
Preservation & Documentation
Tacit knowledge — the kind that lives in hands, not textbooks — disappears when a tradition loses its practitioners. The Shokunin Studios podcast captures artisan voices, processes, and lineages as a living archive.
Shokunin Studios podcast
05
Innovation & Evolution
Where artisan craft meets design application, new things get made. As Shokunin matures, we facilitate collaborative projects — limited editions, commissions, and eventually studio residencies that push craft into new contexts.
Collaborative projects & residenciesA Member's Journey
1
Join the Community
Connect at group meetings and events as an artisan, designer, or mentee.
2
Experience Craft
Attend a workshop or receive a sample kit — encounter the material directly.
3
Build Relationships
Get matched with collaborators across the artisan–designer spectrum.
4
Make Together
Co-create work that neither could produce alone — and share it with the world.
Spotlight
Community Spotlight
The most powerful things in craft happen at the intersection of disciplines — when a furniture maker, a ceramicist, and a textile artist sit in the same room as a designer. When their work converges, something greater than any one of them emerges.
Overview
The completed room — designed by Sindhu Peruri, Peruri Design Company
Ceramics
Linda Fahey — hand-formed ceramic tiles with embedded reflective glass
Ceramics
Linda Fahey — the tile panels as built into the alcove shelving
Decorative Painting
Caroline Lizarraga — hand-painted walls with embedded metallic glass
Metal & Enamel
One Off Furniture — fireplace screen, forged steel with enamel
The Room
All three crafts converging — ceramics, painting, and metalwork in one space
Featured
SF Decorator Showcase House 2026
Three Shokunin artisans and one designer came together to conceive, design, and build an entire room for San Francisco's most celebrated interior design event. Every piece of furniture, every textile, every handmade element was commissioned directly from an artisan in our community. This is what the artisan–designer relationship looks like at its best.
Caroline Lizarraga
Decorative Painter · Co-founder, Shokunin
Caroline painted the room's decorative wall surfaces by hand with embedded metallic glass — layering pigment and reflective material to produce a finish that shifts with the light.
One Off Furniture
Metal Fabrication & Enameling · Co-founder, Shokunin
The One Off team fabricated the fireplace screen and metalwork entirely by hand — a studio of makers combining forged steel and enamel into a piece as structural as it is beautiful.
Sindhu Peruri
Interior Designer, Peruri Design Company
Sindhu conceived and directed the vision for the room — curating contributions from three local Shokunin artisans alongside custom pieces made by artisans in India into a cohesive whole that is deeply researched, culturally layered, and unmistakably hers.
Member Spotlight
Marie McCarthy
Jeweler · Founder, Rose Gold SF
Photo by Shokunin member and photographer Sonya Yruel (@sonyayruel) at our February Suminagashi paper marbling workshop.
Marie McCarthy has spent over two decades honing the art of authentic adornment. Her jewellery ranges from the classically inspired to the darkly mysterious — pieces with a femme, individualistic cool that is entirely her own. No one in San Francisco quite nails it the way she does. The video opposite captures her philosophy on craft and process in her own words.
Note: this film was made when Marie operated under the name Fiat Luxe. She now creates as Rose Gold SF — the artistry, and the artist, are the same.