tokyo tribal collection

2015.03

for industy＋

A furniture collection designed exclusively for“industry+”; a Singaporean design company dedicated to fusing manufacturing with craftsmanship through its proactive collaboration with local industry all over Asia. This collection features 22 items including stools, chairs,tables, and shelves that have been produced to coincide with the MAISON&OBJET ASIA 2015 trade fair.

专为“行业+”设计的家具系列;新加坡设计公司致力于通过与亚洲当地工业的积极合作来融合制造与工艺。这个系列包括22件物品，包括凳子、椅子、桌子和架子，这些都是为2015年MAISON&OBJET亚洲贸易博览会而生产的。

To fit the modern urban living environment, the designs have been made simple and the sizes relatively compact. The collection uses solid oak for the main frames and volcanic sand plaster for the top board finishes, in combination with bamboo rattan hand-woven by local artisans in the Philippines. The bamboo’s elastic properties make it ideal for such things as back-support. It is also used as a design feature, for instance: the table legs going right through a layer of bamboo, or the entire table itself actually encased in bamboo rattan. Through such details, these pieces seem to meld the concepts of ‘furniture’ and ‘miscellaneous interior goods’ into one, in contrast to more conventional concepts of interior design that clearly place greater importance on the former. In allowing for these various products and materials to converge and function together, the conceptual aim is to create a sense of a small and tightly-knit ‘tribe’, greater and better than the sum of its parts.

为了适应现代城市生活环境，设计简约，尺寸相对紧凑。该系列使用实心橡木作为主体框架，火山沙石膏作为顶板饰面，结合菲律宾当地工匠手工编织的竹藤。竹子的弹性特性使它非常适合做背部支撑之类的东西。它也被用作一个设计特征，例如:桌腿穿过一层竹子，或者整个桌子被包裹在竹藤里。通过这些细节，这些作品似乎将“家具”和“杂项室内物品”的概念融合在一起，与更注重前者的传统室内设计概念形成对比。为了使这些不同的产品和材料融合在一起并发挥作用，概念目标是创造一种小而紧密结合的“部落”的感觉，比其各部分的总和更大更好。