Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils by Masahiro Yoshida

Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils by Masahiro Yoshida is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

SilverInterior· 2022

Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils

by Masahiro Yoshida

Client: KAMITOPEN Co., Ltd.

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils

Kama-Asa Shop is a retail interior design for a store selling kitchen utensils in Tokyo. The shop is based on the belief that good tools are made for a good reason, so the space presents the skills of the craftsmen who make the tools on display. To reflect that idea, the interior shows the skills of building craftsmen. Rebar, a ribbed steel bar normally hidden inside walls, becomes the main design element. Handrails and furniture are made of rebar. The forms are simple, yet the work still requires careful craftsmanship.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Kama-Asa Shop Kitchen Utensils is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: As Kama-Asa Shop's policy is set on belief that good tools are made for good reason, it delivers to the customers excellent skills of craftsmen, which make kitchen utensils.
Therefore, the most appropriate for the shop's space was to show architectural skills of craftsmen. The rebar that is usually hidden in the wall became the main design.
Handrails and furniture were designed with rebar. Although they are simple, they still require the use of craftsman skills.
Tags: Rebar
Production Technology: The most appropriate for the shop's space was to show architectural skills of craftsmen. The rebar that is usually hidden in the wall became the main design.
Handrails and furniture were designed with rebar.
Design Challenge: Handrails and furniture were designed with rebar. Although they are simple, they still require the use of craftsman skills.
Inspiration: Concept - the rebar

The rebar is a stick-shaped rolled steel material formed from irregular nubs called ribs and joints that are used as a building construction material.
As Kama-Asa Shop's policy is set on belief that good tools are made for good reason, it delivers to the customers excellent skills of craftsmen, which make kitchen utensils.
Therefore, the most appropriate for the shop's space was to show architectural skills of craftsmen. The rebar that is usually hidden in the wall became the main design.
Project Duration: Address 2-24-1 Matsugaya, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Design started from May 2018 to May 2020
Construction started from May to July 2020 in Tokyo.
Operation Flow: The most appropriate for the shop's space was to show architectural skills of craftsmen. The rebar that is usually hidden in the wall became the main design.
Handrails and furniture were designed with rebar. Although they are simple, they still require the use of craftsman skills.
Team Members: Yoshie Ishii
Image Credits: Image #1:Photographer Keisuke Miyamoto, photographing, 2020.