You Can Now Buy Luxury Japanese Furniture For Cats And It's Amazing

Your cat is the most important thing in your life, always and forever. Even if you don’t quite believe that, your cat definitely does. And your favourite feline deserves the very best.

Forget snoozing in the sink and flopping on the floor, your cat needs this handmade, design-classic furniture from Japan.

This chic sofa and bed is sure to satisfy even the needs of the sleepiest moggy, and the make matters even cuter, you can get the matching furniture for yourself.

Don’t you want your cat to be this happy?

The campaign, called ‘craftsman MADE’, is hoped to reinvigorate the craft industry of Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture area. A hundred and fifty furniture manufacturers once thrived there, but it has suffered in recent years.

The furniture consists of a pine-wood sofa with khaki cushions and a clean-lined dark wood bed with a white mattress, both cat-sized.

You can buy human-sized furniture in the same design

The idea was created by Okawa Kagu, a design consortium of 12 artisans who work with tatami (traditional floor mats), furniture and lattice-making. They wanted to merge the internet’s love of cats with the skills they’ve practised for generations.

The campaign took full-scale designs of beautiful Japanese furniture and simply made them smaller, to produce high quality tiny versions.

Forget Ikea’s collection for animals and cheaply produced beds from the pet store – this is what your cat would want to sleep on if they could talk.

The sofa was made by Hiromatsu Furniture and the bed by Tateno Mokuzai. If you’re interested in making your cat very happy and buying a piece, contact each company via their website.

If you’re a fan of felines, check out these Roman ruins that double as a cat sanctuary and cats that star in famous paintings.

About the author

Alice Johnston

Food Editor

Alice is always planning her next meal. She studied English at the University of Bristol before getting her Master’s in newspaper journalism from City University London. She worked on Femail at Mail Online for 18 months writing about lifestyle and food and has also worked at Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, Mumsnet and The Sun. After starting at Culture Trip as a Social Content Producer writing travel and lifestyle stories, she was promoted to the role of Food Editor and now specialises in culinary culture, trends and social issues around food. When she’s not writing, eating or travelling, she can be found cooking overly elaborate dinners, reading cookbooks in bed or playing with her cat, Orlando. Her favourite foods include fishfinger sandwiches, burnt caramel panna cotta, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and oysters.