Naoto Fukasawa Demonstrates the Impact of Materials in Design

Japanese designer, Naoto Fukasawa, demonstrates the impact of materials in design.

All of these chairs are identical in size and shape, but there’s one important difference between them. Each chair is made from a different material. One’s marble. Another’s redwood. The others are in concrete, acrylic, wickerwork, attaché-case metal, polyurethane foam, felt and even hay.

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The result is intriguing with each material transforming the appearance of the chair. Naoto hit upon the idea of creating a series of chairs to illustrate the impact of a single design decision – the choice of material.

Fukasawa’s nine chairs are part of Vitra Editions.

“Vitra Edition is a laboratory that gives designers, architects and artists the freedom to create experimental furniture objects and interior installations.
“Their choices of materials, technologies, applications and formal concepts are not limited.

“Working without the constraints of market and production logic has a liberating effect and results in surprising solutions and new ways of seeing design.”

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