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  Japanese techniques to support Scandinavian design

  08.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Scandinavian vintage furniture” exhibition started at ROGOBA DESIGN ON LIFE_Tokyo, in Hanzomon, Tokyo.
  All the pieces of furniture are historical items which were restored by Japanese furniture manufacturer “Kitani”.
  “Kitani” is originally a manufacturer which produces furniture for welfare purposes, and during the period when their staffs were conducting a research on Danish furniture in Denmark, they […]

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  Green auction - “Camouflage la chaise” by Morita

  06.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Japanese furniture store hhstyle.com has been hosting an auction titled “Green auction” since 2007. The  main purpose is to save “Green”, which is slowly disappearing from the earth.  Every year each artist is asked to create a unique chair by paiting on Eames’s “La chaise”.  The profits will be donated to the special fund owned […]

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  Ready-to-Assemble Japanese room

  10.13.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The nominations of “Good Design Awards” were anounced this month. Among fifteen products or projects, one will be chosen as Grand Prix. You can see all the nominated products here.
  What I think the most interesting this year is “Ready-to-Assemble Japanese Room” by Asao Sakamoto. Taking an advantage of the traditional Japanese techniques, Sakamoto created ready-to-assemble […]

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  Takeshi Miyakawa

  05.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Takeshi Miyakawa is a Japanese architect based in New York since 1989.  He has created  “fractal 23″ drawers recently. Apparently, it has 23 drawers. It is meant to be perfect for “compact living”, but actually to use both sides you need to put this in the center of a room… but still, this is a […]

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  Japanese design auction

  04.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Connect Auction” is the first design auction focused on furniture design in Japan. There are Art auctions in Japan, but there was’t anything that’s focused on furniture design. The idea behind is to promote design items, which are often underestimated compared to art especially in the Japanese market.
  For example, the image below is a wire […]

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  Tendo Furniture Competition

  03.10.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Design Competitions in Japan might not be very well-known internatinally (except “MUJI” competition), but there are couple of them that are getting some attention such as Asahikawa’s international furniture competition, and Toyama’s craft competition.
  Tendo-mokko, which is located in Yamagata, north of Japan, decided to have a design competition first time in 40 years! Tendo is […]

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  "Japanese bow" chair by Enzo Mari

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Hida Omotesando” is located in the cultural shopping center “Omotesando Hills” in Tokyo. The store “Hida Omotesando” has been collaborating with Italian designer Enzo Mari by using the technique developped in Hida Takayama, which is well known as their tradition of producing fine pieces of furniture.
  This is a new product named “Arcus”. The theame of […]

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