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TORii "Little Zen "
- desk & side table concept -
Born and raised in the city of Tokyo,Japan,
Japanese culture has always given me inspirations and creative perspective
A Torii (鳥居) is a traditional Japanese Gate commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto Shrine,
where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred
The presence of a torii at the entrance is usually the simplest way to identify Shinto shrines
In this project, I aimed to explore a beauty of Torii 鳥居 and its culture
by visually transforming it to a table set furniture concept "TORii"
The function of a torii is to mark the entrance to a sacred space.
domino joint for beams and leg
tabletop screwed together with underbeam
5 degree angled legs
Technical Drawing - side table
Technical Drawing - desk
Sketch ideation
- construction process -
Final look
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