Ryo Kurisi Balengan by Yuto Yamada is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award Gangsa in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

GangsaParabot· 2026

Ryo Kurisi Balengan

by Yuto Yamada

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Ryo Kurisi Balengan

Ryo adolah kurisi balengan nan babantuak sabagai satu bantuak nan basambuang taruih. Galombang-galombangnyo maalie dari tampek duduak sampai ka sandaran jo mambantuak lingkaran nan indak taputuih. Rancangan ko bamulo dari patanyoan apokoh sabuah parabot nan biaso bisa mangambiak bantuak nan labiah bebas. Permukaan tigo dimensi nan rumik tu payah untuak diproduksi jo dicapai jo manggunoan kain nan bisa malar (stretch fabric). Kurisi balengan ko baukuran 725 milimeter labanyo, 730 milimeter dalamnyo, jo 800 milimeter tingginyo. Cangkang nan malengkuang tu manyalimuik urang nan duduak di ateh e jo manambah unsur patuang ka dalam ruangan.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Ryo Kurisi Balengan adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Ryo Kurisi Balengan dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Ryo Kurisi Balengan mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: From the seat to back, the undulations creates an uninterrupted loop.
it has become a unique armchair with undulations.
Dimensions & Packaging: w725 x d730 x h800mm
Tags: Chair, Armchair, Sofa, Design, Unique
Production Technology: Creating the shape of the tertiary surface proved extremely challenging. It was achieved by employing stretch fabric.
Design Challenge: Expressing the form of the cubic surface and realising it while utilising the engineers' skills proved extremely challenging. Through repeated discussions, we continued to seek the correct solution until completion was achieved.
Inspiration: This project began with the question: could we express the commonplace piece of furniture that is the armchair in a freer form? The idea expanded from the seat to back, the undulations creates an uninterrupted loop.
it has become a unique armchair with undulations.
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 unique chair, which adorns the space, envelops those who sit upon it. It promises an experience unlike any other.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Yuto Yamada, 2025
Image Credits: Photographer / Takumi Ota