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Yuto Yamada's Chifuyu Living Center Table emerges from a neutral ground plane as a sculptural exploration of biomorphic geometry and planar layering, its primary mass composed of two overlapping…

Chifuyu Living Center Table by Yuto Yamada is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.


BronzeFurniture· 2026

Chifuyu Living Center Table

by Yuto Yamada

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category

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The Design

About Chifuyu Living Center Table

Chifuyu is a low center table designed for living rooms. The form was inspired by an image of two pieces of leather suspended in mid air. A single curving piece of leather shapes the surface and creates a sense of floating. Perforated metal supports the curve and made the complex three dimensional shaping possible. The table measures 950 millimetres in width, 950 millimetres in depth and 280 millimetres in height. The light and suspended appearance is intended to add an extraordinary note to everyday interiors.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Chifuyu Living Center Table is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Chifuyu Living Center Table is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Chifuyu Living Center Table splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The curving single piece of leather creates a sense of floating.
This center table is almost gravity-beflying.
This table, as if suspended in mid-air, will bring a touch of the extraordinary to your everyday life.
Dimensions & Packaging
w950 x d950 x h280mm
Tags
Table,low table,center table,Design,Unique
Production Technology
The shaping of the tertiary surface proved extremely difficult. It was achieved by employing perforated metal.
Design Challenge
Expressing the shape of a cubic surface and realising it while utilising the skills of engineers proved extremely difficult. Through repeated discussions, we continued to seek the correct solution until completion.
Inspiration
While pondering how to create a new table, an image came to mind of two pieces of leather suspended in mid-air.
I contemplated how to realise this vision, and arrived at this form.
Project Duration
The project started in Apr. 2020 in Tokyo and finished in Jan. 2021 in Tokyo, and was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in June 2022.
Operation Flow
This table, as if suspended in mid-air, will bring a touch of the extraordinary to your everyday life.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Yuto Yamada, 2025.
Image Credits
Photographer / Takumi Ota

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