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2007/5/14


立川裕大 TachikawaYudai YudaiTachikawa

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Born 1965 in Nagasaki pref. President of t.c.k.w inc.
 
Yudai Tachikawa is a design director who supports the overall design
strategy for many companies as an outside creative consultant. With a base
of product planning and development relating to the field of interiors such
as furniture, lighting and household electrics, he handles the overall
process necessary for design to find its way to the consumer, including
designer selection, marketing research, promotion and publicity.
 
Through his own company he started a ground-breaking project called
“ubushina”  which fuses Japanese traditional handicrafts such as lacquer
ware and bamboo craft with the flair of modern design, producing novel and
original products. He also runs “MD salon”, a member’s trade fair site,
in which buyers can view products primarily submitted by its own designers.
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2007/5/11


BEPPU dining table Beppu Dainingu Teburu 

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Even though a dining table is an item from a western interior, this table invokes nostalgia in people, the feeling you get when you experience something familiar. It is completely made of cedar(from  75mm thick planks), which comes from Miyazaki Prefecture. For the joint between the table surface board and leg, it uses the ‘Shikuchi’ method of joinery, which is commonly seen in Japanese architecture. ‘Shikuchi’ is a technique that links pillar and girder. The perfect interrelation of angle, surface and pillar makes the interior modern. The table reminds us of a pillar in a house that is present just beside us.  

■ BEPPU Dining Table
・ Pure cedar (Oil Varnished)
・ W×D×H 1800mm×825mm×700mm
・ Designed by Makoto Koizumi

■ Produced by Ubushina, Yudai Tachikawa
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漆・テーブル天版(彫刻塗り) Urushi・Teburu-tenban(chokoku-nuri) Table ‘Tenhan’ (lacquer-coated carving)

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This geometric table with lacquer-coated carving was originally created as a display piece for the Milano Salone. Craftsmen were not used to working on the unusual patterns and size of a  table such as this. In general, pictures were on the lacquer coated cravings, not geometrical designs. Some voices even exclaimed, “This project might be better done by machines!”. On the other hand, with a machine, there would be risks of pigments spreading into the grooves of the carving, during the lacquer coating.However, the craftsmen’s pride motivated them to create this table. When the table was completed, it gave a  rich impression that could not have been machine-made. ‘It was difficult, though I had this chance to encounter a completely different set of values. This gave me a new idea in spatial craft making”, one craftsman commented with pleasure after completing the table. As a result, this table is a unique fusion of design and craft.A new state appears in which the environment is arranged to make design and craft combine and function together.

Table “Tenhan”・Lacquer-coated carving・ SizeW×D×H (mm) 800×800×25 (not including the leg)・ Designed byIntenionallies

Produced byUbushina, Yuta Tachikawa
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椅子 Isu chair

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Chair×craftsmanship
The chair on the left shows a carpentry technique of shaving bark, while the chair on the right shows a technique in which leather is attached to a chair.
A wooden chair with a single-leg is unique.  The leg is made using a technique in which bark is shaved by turning a piece of wood on a potter’s wheel. Its shape is generated by a rotary motion that looks as if the chair has started rolling,
As for the other chair, its candy-colored leather is modern and elegant. It was designed for an apparel retail store.  Thick leather is wrapped around steel bars.  The leather wrapping and sewing requires great skill.
■ Single-leg chair(left)
*Mahogany with oil finish
*W×D×H×SH (mm) 540×440×710×450
■ Chair(right)
*steel flat bar/leather
*W×D×H×SH (mm) 622×670×750×420
*Both items are designed by Intentionallies
■produced by Ubushina, Yudai Tachikawa
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金箔アクセサリー(純銀箔マット仕上げ) Kinpanku-Akusesari(Jun-ginpaku-mattoshiage) Gold foiled Accessory (sterling silver-foil finish)

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Technology in Japan allows for the production of the world’s thinnest gold foil. It is so advanced that gold alloy the size of a ten-yen coin can be stretched to the size of one tatami (traditional Japanese flooring: approximately 1.6562 m2). The technology for creating foil is no longer limited to just gold, but to all kinds of metals, which allows for a wider variety of colors as well. The ring above is made of acrylic fiber, foiled with sterling silver. The integration of the foil’s thinness with the absolute clarity of the acrylic fiber results in a ring that has ice-like characteristics, it being light, airy and translucent. The thinly stretched silver foil gives this ring the appropriate hard texture and feel that sterling silver should have.

Accessory
-Sterling silver-foil finish
Design: Masako Saka (acrylic)
Produced by: Ubushina,Yudai Tachikawa
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COSI COSI Koshi koshi COSI COSI

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We usually think that only cloth or thread can be dyed with plant-derived colors, but this furniture has been given a natural finish with plant-dyes. The way to color bark with plant dyes was very rare in old times. The furniture expresses its natural color.  The dyeing color, which is different from the coating color, makes you feel that the wood is breathing.
■ chair(right)
*solid Melapy wood with plant dye oil finish
*size W1080×D540×H360 (mm)
*designed by Kazuteru Murasawa
■produced by Ubushina, Yudai Tachikawa
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ubushina(うぶしな) ubushina Ubushina

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“Ubushina” is derived from the ancient Japanese word for birthplace
“ubusuna” and is the name of a project managed by t.c.k.w inc, a compay
run by design director, Yudai Tachikawa.
 
Ubushina introduces the techniques used by outstanding artisans to
commercial projects undertaken by contemporary architects and designers and,
through structuring the overall project and  product planning stages,
manages to carefully implement the techniques all the way through to the
consumer. They visit artisans’ studios and workshops nationwide and
intricately plan how their extraordinary techniques can be implemented and
applied to commercial products. They engage architects and designers to find
out their needs and requests, contemplating a product’s overall strategy
and attending to every eventuality so that the techniques and design work
together.
 
What is remarkable is their attitude in which they try to bring out a new
value in traditional artworks and artisans’ handicrafts such as lacquer
ware, metalwork, gold leaf and bamboo craft. Fusing unique traditional craft
methods and a modern day design aesthetic, they create exciting new products
with fresh contemporary values.
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ウィンドウディスプレイプロジェクト「dunhill Scope」 Uindou-dispurei-purojekuto「danhiru sukopu」 Window Display Project at Dunhill Scope

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A one-year window display project was carried out at the gallery space “Dunhill Scope” of Dunhill Omotesando Boutique in 2006. The exhibition concept was created by Director Kenichi Otani and the whole project was managed by t.c.k.w. Inc. (represented by Yudai Tachikawa), which is known for its activities of introducing excellent craft techniques to architectures and designers. The photo on the left shows the work created with “Hanami (cherry blossom seeing) as the theme. The creator, having received the idea from Origami, used the objet d'art of cherry blossoms. Beautiful flowers and a cute bicycle create a unique and delicate visuality. The work on the upper right is entitled “Sewing the World,” expressing worldwide Dunhill shops, which continue activities to attach importance on tradition and concepts. Numerous colorful lines link the places on the world map made of various materials. Bright colors and a variety of materials represent nationality of each country. This beautiful work gives us a strong impression. (Produced and designed by Kenichi Otani, Promoted by ubushina and Yudai Tachikawa)
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