UTA - GACHI series
(sideboard)

1985
Yamaha Corp.
W1605xD460xH855mm
Bird’s eye maple, silkscreen dots, polyurethane mirror finish

 While keeping in mind the practical and social realities of everyday life, a step back from the immediate requirements of efficiency and function will allow us to confront products and furniture with a fresh eye. As there are formal and casual elements in people's lives and activities, similarly there are differences between the rigid, flexible, and casual styles in furniture and artifacts also.

In an attempt to represent the formal and orthodox styles of human attitude, I have tried in this piece to symbolize abstraction and spirituality, like that condensed in the Japanese "Toko-no-ma (alcove)".

Here the lyricism of the changing expressions of wood surface, the hard texture of metal, the decorative techniques as a traditional rhetoric, and the tactile qualities all come together. While concentrating all possible attention to detail, it is at the same time a pursuit for a multi-layered hybrid expression.