BENT GLASS BENCH DESIGN
NAOTO FUKASAWA
Bench with an aspect of
natural simplicity, made from shaped and curved 12 mm. Thick transparent
extralight glass. The particular glass curvature and a special tempering process
endow the glass with an extraordinary load resistance.
Designing shape is to
give form to values that people tacitly share and wish for. Naoto Fukasawa
visually captures these values and he draws the exact outline of them. His
ability for visualising such unseen outlines for things is not easily worded
and described, nonetheless, people are convinced with his ability when they
experience his design.
Fukasawa’s notions and
expressions to approach essential values of things through design travel beyond
borders or domains and his thoughts are well respected internationally. His
concept for finding hints in subconscious behaviour of people which he named “Without
Thought”, is most known and he runs “Without Thought” workshops to share his
thoughts.
Fukasawa collaborates
with world leading companies and brands in such countries as Italy, France,
Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Scandinavian countries and Asian countries while
consulting Japanese leading companies locally. His area of work is broad and he
works with various fields in design beyond categories. Consulting works for
Japanese companies are mainly focused on evaluating their cooperate strategies
in line with the mean of sociality and how we define quality of life in order
to direct the companies towards where society is inevitably heading. Such
consulting work extends as far as to visualise design for their products which
marks the company’s social responsibilities as well as to visualise their
cooperate strategies and Fukasawa‘s work for consulting has led them to many
successful results.
