Bae discovered Kinser's work at a local studio and immediately brought Kinser into his fold and influenced the direction of the craftsman's emerging style, a perfect marriage between the graceful assymetry of Japanese design, and the honest, clean aesthetic of his Swedish training which Bae and Kinser have monikered an infusion of Swedish and Japanese. The many Kinser furnishings now on display at Tobai International reflect this creative union, and include small cabinets, a credenza whose tabletop is fashioned from a cross-section slab of a log, and his sublimated forms of Japanese tansu, or cabinetry, in which the Asian influences are most pronounced. Standing in the presence of one of Kinser's furnishings, it is easy to recognize that he approaches wood with the sensibility of an artist. His pieces are a delight to both the eye and the hand. Their clean lines result from hand shaping and sculpting.
Power tools are shunned.
Kinsers forms are simple and elegant, the work of a craftsman who believes that design must never dominate materials.