A CHAIR
FALLING ON ONE'S BEHIND
(2006)





行為を象る

服作りは、身体を型どるパターンメイキングから始まります。椅子に関しても、「座る」という身体状況をいかに型どるか、という視点では服作りと共通の概念を持っています。この椅子は、平面に「尻餅をつく」ことで、紙がどのように潰れるか、という実験からパターンを起しています。


Merging the act into the chair

This chair was modeled after the act of falling on one's behind. By way of illustration, I would like to conjure the image clothes making. Making clothes is based on the form of the human body. That is why clothes are called our "second skin." I believe that chairs are also our "second skin." Thus, I think that the body also plays a major role in a chair's design.



平面に尻餅をつく。
紙に生じた行為の痕跡を型どる。

Using a trace for the pattern of the chair.
The trace was acquired through the act of landing on plain paper.



左から、無印良品のフィットするソファに紙を敷いて座ったもの。便座に紙を敷いて座ったもの。床に紙を敷いて尻餅をついたもの。

The above instance shows my three practices:
First, from left to right, landing on a body-fit cushion; Second, landing on a toilet seat;
Third, landing on a floor.



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