大友賀公 / Gaku Otomo

http://www.gakudesign.jp/

1978 東京生まれ
1992 GAKUDESIGNとしてデザイン活動開始
2008 GAKUDESIGN inc. 設立
1978 Born in Tokyo
1992 Started design work as GAKUDESIGN
2008 Established GAKUDESIGN inc.

ホンダナ|HONDANA

厚さはあるが重厚ではない。緊張感がありながらどこか温かい。
個性のある要素がバランスするときの不思議な存在感にかわいらしさを感じる。
木口へ施された楕円弧がどことなく本の背のように見え、本を並べるほどに棚自体の存在感が薄れていく。本型ブックエンドも同時考案。

ホンダナ|HONDANA

It has thickness, but is not heavy. There is an air of tension, but also, somehow, warmth.
A kind of cuteness is felt in the mysterious presence resulting from the balance of individual elements. The elliptic arc applied to the butt end somehow resembles the spine of a book, and the very presence of the shelf itself seems to fade as books are aligned upon it. Book-shaped bookends are also being developed simultaneously.

new action

実はちょっと大きいモノをつくってみたい。
そう思っていました。
形をつくりすぎず、無理のない思考で、ちょうど良い「デザイン濃度」なものを。
そんなものを目指してみたい。
初めての家具。私のnew action。

new action

I actually want to try creating something relatively large. That’s what I thought.
Without shaping it too much, and thinking reasonably, I wanted to create something with just the right amount of "design consistency." That is what I want to try for. My first furniture. My "new action."