Chairs for Museums
 
I designed the "KYOBASHI" chair for the Artizon Museum opened in Kyobashi, Tokyo. Since there are nearly 100 chairs to be installed in the museum cafe, I aimed the chair to be outstandingly beautiful yet discreet. I designed chairs, tables, floors, walls, and ceilings as elements of the space.

It is always necessary to pay close attention to the presence of the chairs and how they fit into the space. I put the highest importance to keep the form of the back of the chair lower than the tabletop so that it would not become visual noise in the space. In other words, it is a design of an element that harmonizes with the space, not the chair by itself. The curve rising from the front leg to the backrest is composed of a cubic curve.

The feature of this armchair is the single rounded structure to embrace the person who is sitting on it. After cutting oak into 3mm-thick pieces, they are laminated into curves and cut into round bars and put together with finger joints. A taper processing with a diameter of a few millimeters is applied from the upper part of the arm to the tip of the leg to give a light feeling when the chair is put on the ground.

To harmonize with the space, such details were pursued, and the chair was realized by applying the aesthetics of subtraction. I aimed for the chair to be discreet. The space becomes complete when the chairs are placed. I believe that the meaning of this chair is identified when integrated with the space.

To make the product more suitable for all types of spaces, customers can choose and personalize the materials used. The main structure is made of Japanese Oak that comes from the dense forests of Hokkaido, Japan and is carefully and highly precisely processed by Japanese furniture manufacturers.