Titikaka
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The traditional typology of the outdoor bench is revamped with contemporary language. It’s an impressive piece that resembles a sculpture. Made of teakwood slats that cover the structure to the ground on both front and back, positioned horizontally on the aluminium structure in an original wave-like arrangement to create curves that are both pleasant and ergonomically functional.
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Concept
The waters of Lake Titicaca dictate the shape (and name) of the bench by Fukasawa. This stretch of water lies between Bolivia and Perù, a lake 204 km long and 65 km wide that occupies around 8562 km². This very beautiful place caught the designer’s attention, and he tried to capture the movement of the waves to “move” the bench into a new, wavy shape.
Titikaka revolutionises the concept of a bench. Fukasawa redesigned a traditionally “immobile” piece and set it in a new realm of poetry and sculpture.
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aluminium and solid wood
Ferrules
plastic material
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Designer
Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa is a designer known for his projects devoted to simplicity and sublime beauty, as well as unusual ideas. He has designed a wide range of products, from hi-tech to electronic equipment, architecture, and also high-end furniture and objects. He is collaborating with top leading brands, including B&B Italia, throughout Europe, America, and Asia. Fukasawa is one of the directors of 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, he also sits on the design advisory board of MUJI and is the art director of MARUNI. In 2006, he established “Super Normal” with Jasper Morrison. In 2017, he became a member of the judging committee for the LOEWE Craft Prize. He is vice president at Tama Art University and director of The Nihon Mingei-kan (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum) since 2012. In 2022 he founded the Design Science Foundation. Fukasawa is the winner of numerous awards given by domestic and international institutions, including the 2018 Isamu Noguchi Award. He published a few books, the most recent one in 2018 “Naoto Fukasawa EMBODIMENT” (Phaidon).
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