Iron Furniture Design · 2017
Kawarie Zabuton Japanese cushion
by Misako Niwa
- A' Design Award 2017 Iron Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2017
- CLIENT: Tsumugu
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 15,276
- Verification code 7AEFBF05FE · Verify this award
About Kawarie Zabuton Japanese cushion
I have plenty of time and money to spare and rear children to maintain an abundant life. The increase which can't often take time, and it are double-income and a nuclear family as the cause Rarefication of the connection with the area is mentioned.So a parent and child touches in the busy daily life, and it's abundant time. A picture book and a floor cushion were one from the wish I want to have time. A communication tool for a parent and a child is proposed. A daily natural change and a flow in time are felt and enjoyed.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The material can be used while enjoying with a variety of modern scenes a combination of texture and taste that feels warmth using Kurume cloth, a traditional craft.
We propose you like spinning thread while feeling the transition of the beautiful season of Japan - a carefree life. - Dimensions & Packaging
- diameter 400mm thickness 60mm
- Tags
- Floor Cushion,Kurume Kasuri, Kurume cotton cloth with a splashed pattern,picture book,folding paper,origami,Hexagonal return
- Production Technology
- The shape - Hexagonal return
When it's folded in hexagonal-shaped and it's held from a center, 3 pictures appear repeatedly.
Strange mechanism folding paper
A change in the color and the design can be enjoyed so that a page of a picture book may be turned over.
The fabric material - Kurume Kasuri is a term for ikat fabric woven in the area of Chikugo in Fukuoka,Japan.
The method is invited by Den Inoue around 1800 in Kurume City.
We can weave single or double ikat using Kasuri ikat yarn which
has been dyed in advance.
this method is called”Kukuri”.
Kasuri ikat is normally cotton 100%.
weaving width 37～38cm.
Hand weaving and machine weaving.
In 1957,KURUME KASURI was appointed to the important cultural property of the country.
In 1976,KURUME KASURI was appointed to a Minister of Economy Trade and Industry.
Core material - urethane form
Urethane foam which is stronger than elastic sponge and strong in elasticity is adopted.
Even if the posture becomes stable and I ease a burden to a lower back and sit down long, it's difficult to get tired. - Design Challenge
- I was particular about made in Japan as the tool you can keep using for a long time and aimed at the sophisticated shape by the simplicity to which tiredness doesn't come.
- Project Duration
- It was completed as a research result of the graduation production of the university. In July 2015 we launched an individual business, the first prototype was manufactured in November 2015.
- Operation Flow
- Feel like seeing, touching and imagining.
The warm shade. You can keep using it lengthily.
It's elastic and I'd like the seating comfort. - Research
- arent-child communication tool.
I studied Japanese traditional crafts.
The material which is strong and lasts long was studied. I was particular about the thing which are the thing made in Japan and the interior where the room is changed according to the change and the feeling, the case that the shape changes and the seating comfort. - Inspiration
- Based on the origami picture-changing box, Tsumugu's "Changing Picture Floor Cushion" was inspired by Kurume Tsumugi, a traditional Japanese patterned cloth.
Pull it out from the middle to change between the three di erent patterns.
With the warm texture and traditional Japanese patterns, this is perfect for almost any modern usage. - Image Credits
- Main visual Photographer Madoka Akiyama 2015
#1 Photographer Madoka Akiyama 2015
#2 Photographer Madoka Akiyama 2015
#4 Photographer Madoka Akiyama 2015 - Patents
- 1545537/Right of registered design/February 12,2016/JAPAN Patent office
Colors of Kawarie Zabuton Japanese cushion
Design Interview about Kawarie Zabuton Japanese cushion
The movement which turns over a picture book.
Hexagonal return of folding paper.
Japanese traditional arts and crafts.
Kurume cotton cloth with a splashed pattern.
Hexagonal return of folding paper.
Japanese traditional arts and crafts.
Kurume cotton cloth with a splashed pattern.
I spend time to have plenty of room.
A life is enjoyed.
Smiling face.
A life is enjoyed.
Smiling face.
Japanese product design using traditional arts and crafts and spatial production
Graduation work of the Kyoto University of Art and Design spatial tour
Making with new pattern is getting ready.
I designed by myself.
There isn't a person who underwent influence.
Care for the old facilities, hotel, Japanese-style hotel, hospital and tourist
Gift
Gift
There is nothing.
3 sides are using 3 kinds of fabric, and turn over like a picture book, and change.
Sewing machine.
The pattern turns over, and is going to change 3 sides.
There is no one.
Spatial production and change in a room
The kind of fabric.
The special quality of the urethane.
Functionality
The durability
The special quality of the urethane.
Functionality
The durability
The quality of the urethane and the shape
I make the design spread in the world.
good of the Japanese traditional arts and crafts which spread is told.
good of the Japanese traditional arts and crafts which spread is told.
Combine, the material and the feel of a material