Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクション by Canuch Inc. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 金賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
金家具· 2023
Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクション
by Canuch Inc.
Client: Fil Studios
A' Design Award 金賞 Winner in 家具 Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #143174The Design
About Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクション
Mass Series Sumi Limitedは、ダイニングチェア、ラウンジチェア、コーヒーテーブル、2種のスツール、コートハンガーで構成される家具コレクションです。各アイテムは、スチールフレームと、古木から採られた杉材を贅沢に削り出したパーツを組み合わせています。杉は耐久性を高め、木目を際立たせる伝統的な焼き工法によって炭化させ、艶やかな黒い表面と稀有な質感を生み出しています。この深い黒の仕上げは、人と自然が共生する阿蘇地域の草原を焼く「野焼き」に着想を得ています。本シリーズは年間25台限定で製作されます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金賞
Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクションは、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクションは、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Mass Series Sumi Limited 家具コレクションは、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The series uses steel frame and generously planed-down cedar. What makes this series so special and profound is that the best part of old cedar trees is used and prepared by skilled woodcraft men. Clean-cut design with smoothly planed cedar and elegantly prepared steel frame urges you to touch and feel it.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dining chair W590mm x D670mm x SH420mm x AH610mm
Lounge chair W605mm x D680mm x SH365mm x AH510mm
900 Coffee table W900mm x D900mm x H450mm
Handle stool W380mm x H450mm
4Leg stool W380mm x D380mm x H450mm
Coat Hanger W450mm x D450mm x H1600mm - Tags
- Furniture, Kumamoto, FIL, FIL STUDIOS, MASS Series
- Production Technology
- Unique texture created by charred cedar
It is a traditional method to charred cedar to make durable furniture. The process involves skills and experience to bring out cedar defined grains just right. This is what produces the unique texture and rare finish to the furniture. - Design Challenge
- Charred inky black represents the culture
Cedar is charred to gain glossiness and organic feature with defined grains. Charred colour reminds us of noyaki. It represents Aso history and beauty of harmonic lifestyle with nature.
Unique texture created by charred cedar
It is a traditional method to charred cedar to make durable furniture. The process involves skills and experience to bring out cedar defined grains just right. This is what produces the unique texture and rare finish to the furniture. - Research
- Brand is based in Minami-Oguni, Kumamoto prefecture. Minami-Oguni is a town located to the north of Aso caldera which has an active volcano to this day. Aso caldera is internationally famous and about 50,000 people call it home. Rather than just making products, Brand came about with an ambition to protect and preserve the landscape and natural resources that communities cherished and harness it for future generations.
- Inspiration
- Sumi limited is designed to express the unique Aso experience, where people and nature coexist and press on together in a majestic yet harsh volcanic environment, along with the seeds of life sprouting from the inky black world of Noyaki.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 in Kumamoto and finished in July 2020 in Tokyo Japan, and was exhibited in Designart Tokyo in 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Sumi limited is designed to express the unique Aso experience, where people and nature co-exist and press on together in a majestic yet harsh volcanic environment, along with the seeds of life sprouting from the inky black world of Noyaki. This series is limited to 25 units sold annually. The number is based on the 25 Oguni cedar saplings which were granted in the Edo period to grow forests.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to FIL, 2022.
- Team Members
- Strategic Planner：Genki Imamura
Project Manager：Kentaro Kanayama
Art director：Ryosuke Tomita
Public Relation：Masahiro Ryohara
Interior & Furniture design：Yosuke Kinoshita
Interior & Furniture design：Yusuke Noguchi
Digital Creative Director：Hiroki Noma
Creative Developer：Misato Daikuhara
Creative Developer：Kenta Toshikura
Photographer：Haruki Anami
Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa - Image Credits
- Main Image #1 Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa
Optional Image #1 Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa
Optional Image #2 Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa
Optional Image #3 Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa
Movie : Haruki Anami
Optional Image #4 Photographer：Kenichi Aikawa
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