Speakers.  Purse.  Wood.  A match made in fantastic Japanese mad design heaven.  Nobody can dispute that the Japanese have the best flair for imaginative (often completely baffling) and yet intuitive design.  I know it might sound like I’m teeing up for a bad taste/possibly racial joke there, but I’m not.  Shame on you for thinking that. This is the wooden speaker purse by artist Yoshihiko Satoh, and it’s $340.  I don’t think that’s alot when you consider the crap that Chanel and Gucci turf out at ten times the price.  Read more after the jump.

To be truthful I can’t really tell you a great deal more about it, because the website is in Japanese and there are no Japanese people around right now for me to ask.  Just waiting for a bit to see if any walk by.  Nope.  Not a sausage.  Well, looks like you’ve got this in the way of info:

木製スピーカーをモバイルプレーヤーと一緒に持ち歩いて、どこでもアナログ的なサウンドを楽しめたなら…。 そんな思いを形にするために、静岡の実力派家具メーカーと音響機器メーカーがコラボレートして作り上げたモバイルスピーカー。家具職人が手で曲げて作る絶 妙なカーブ、20種類以上のスピーカーを組み合わせて見つけた最適なセッティングなど、小さなボディの随所に「音質」へのこだわりを詰め込まれたモバイル スピーカーの理想形です。

Good luck.

More info here.