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Osaka University of Arts, Design Department + Karimoku Furniture
Chairs that help the audience appreciate and connect with artworks
Chairs that help the audience appreciate and connect with artworks was born from the transdisciplinary industry-academia collaboration program taught by Kunihiro Tsuji, a visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts.
Through collaboration with Karimoku Furniture and Nankai Electric Railway, students from Osaka University of Arts went through the cyclical process of research → design → production → research. By designing stools for viewing artworks, such as Maki Takato's Hopeful monster GOLD, and creating a new viewing experience that connects art, people, and places, the program is redefining public space.
Osaka University of Arts, Design Department
Osaka University of Arts is committed to ensuring that a spirit of freedom permeates its campus and to developing talent equipped with cross-disciplinary creativity, a global perspective, and practical rationality. The Design Department offers seven major courses to allow students to learn how to enrich society—the essence of design—and is also involved in industry-academia collaboration by offering design-project classes common to all courses.
Karimoku Furniture
A furniture manufacturer based in Aichi Prefecture, founded in 1940. Utilizing the skills it had cultivated as a woodworking shop, the company has been selling its original wooden furniture since the 1960s. With the motto of "making furniture worthy of a 100-year-old tree," the company offers high-tech, high-touch, high-quality furniture that combines advanced machine processing with the skills of artisans. It also meets the standards for Domestic Furniture Labeling Certification and remains conscious of safety, security, and the environment.