THE STRUCTURE

THE STRUCTURE will redefine the chair, treating it as an element for making the most out of space and materials.
Through various approaches to resources and circulation, we offer an inseparable relationship between forests and people through furniture.

Forests and Trees　Trees and People　People and Forests

Wood has long been an essential material for human life. For this reason, we cut and use a large number of trees. When we pick up a piece of wood that has already been made into a product or processed into paper, few of us imagine a standing tree with roots growing in the soil.

Some of the wood we use is cut from forests nurtured by the abundant water of Hida City in Gifu, Japan.
Five percent of the trees cut from Hida’s mountains are used as furniture and building materials, while 95% are used as pulp and chips.
Some of the 95% is small wood, which is difficult to use for mass-produced products that logistically require a stable supply of materials due to its small diameter and sparsity of species. In order to cut large trees suitable for furniture and building materials, the surrounding thin trees must also be cut.

The existence of small wood has had something to do with the chairs we were making.
The combination of the minimal shape and small wood as a material should be reminiscent of and embody the forest of Hida-Furukawa through a medium, bringing a new connection to the idea of a relationship between forests and people from upstream to downstream.