TAEHO KWON attended East Carolina University and majored in Commercial Arts, studying Interior Design. He’s been a furniture designer for 27 years and a woodworker for 24 years. During those years, he also spent years learning Eastern joinery at the School of Korean Traditional Architecture in Korea, studying the Buddhist temples and traditional Korean houses in the making. Taeho spent almost 15 years researching the traditional joinery that can last 1,000 years, which is a forgotten art in our current time. His plan has been to utilize this advanced joinery in his furniture design, as represented in his sitting bench/coffee table, entry table, and most of the furniture he creates. He then decided to pass down his knowledge to all woodworking enthusiasts by having workshops across the United States. Since then, he’s been teaching for ten years. All his workshops involve complex joinery by making unique projects designed by Taeho or modified from the traditional Korean design to suit modern living while utilizing the forgotten methods of joinery made to last for hundreds of years.