TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder by Noriko Otaka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2020
TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder
by Noriko Otaka
Client: Office Otaka
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder
TPH Leather is a compact design with paper sandwiched between two leather trays and taken out from above. The material and weight of the upper and lower tray cores are changed so that the paper can be taken out smoothly. The top is made of aluminum, which is in addition to there are a variety of leather variations, and take advantage of the characteristics of the leather to change sewing.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. TPH Steel Tissue Paper Holder is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
When thinking about design, what is important to me is simple thinking, usability, and seeing the face of a craftsman. My inspiration comes from walking around town and old magazines. Especially the magazine "FMR" is a source of important ideas.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The important thing to consider when designing this TPH STEEL is functional beauty. Usability and form beauty.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We would like to improve TPH STEEL. There are two colors, matte black and silver, but increase the colors to suit various interiors. To improve usability while maintaining the shape.And in the future, we will work to make it recognized by many people.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Tissue paper which is a daily needs in your life, but it doesn’t look nice at your room. We solve the problem with our beautiful and brand new design TPH “Tissue paper holder”. Pick up paper from a package, and put the papers between the trays. That’s all how start to use. Reverse U-shaped form makes width shorter. Furthermore you can pick paper up very smoothly. It’s made by steel. That’s why you can also use as a post-it board with magnets. The upper body’s steel weight is 0.8t and the bottom one is 2.0t. Finding the selection of materials was the most difficult thing. The upper one is much lighter than bottom one, so you can pick a paper up very smoothly. This functional tissue paper holder fits anywhere such as an office room or a living room, and makes the place more beautiful.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- size: W235mm D140mm H85 mm / weight: 550g
Material: Body steel : Rod brass (plated)
Production: Sheet metal - Production Technology
- It seems a simple design, but we had a lot of process for making a sample. The most difficult part was making move to take up paper smoothly from the holder. We had two problems which are weight of trays and balance of two props. We finally made this model at 4th sample.
We imagine you to use next by laptop at your office. That’s why, we chose only two colors black and silver, and either of ones made mat finishing. - Research
- The technology in this age is progressing, but tissue paper is always needed by anyone. We can change our daily needs into an interior products. Our products made by Japanese factories with high quality craftsmanship. TPH Steel was made by hand which make use of this craftmanship.
- Inspiration
- Where is tissue paper in your room? Hiding somewhere? Tissue paper is always a side character in your room, because it doesn’t fit your interior design. We try to make products which are able to fit any interior design. We only make with an eco material, and it will last a long time.
We started to sell with a leather one at 2018, which fits a modern living room.
This steel one made to fit a simple office. - Project Duration
- The design started in Tokyo in August 2018 and was completed in Ishikawa Prefecture in December 2018,and was exhibited at the hotel area of Gift Show Tokyo in February 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Put papers between two trays, and pick up from the upper tray. The upper tray have two props which are for fasting papers.
For make smaller, made as reverse-U shaped and it adapt any size of papers. The right amount is 150〜160 paper which is about 4.5cm in thickness. - Patents
- CERTIFICATE OF UTILITY MODEL REGISTRATION OF JAPAN
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