Birdie-Bijou at D'Days
Facility
Paris 2017
OKA is a furniture line, its design being developed between Eastern and Western culture kindly mastered by a Tatami Master Craftsman from Kyoto.
The project proposes the use of ancestral Japanese savoir-faire to create a set of contemporary seating which can be used whether in spaces like Japanese style rooms or in Western domestic spaces.
The process of design of the objects takes into account the traditional manufacturing methods to offer furniture with simple shapes, qualitative, comfortable and sustainable ecologically speaking and respectful of the environment.
Rice straw is a basic and noble natural material, but its implementation requires great dexterity. Its moisture regulating power offers an added value beyond the primary function of the designed object, it means allowing to purify the air of the room in which it is placed in sufficient quantity.
The Oka line is composed of three main elements and a dozen variants. The rocking chair tatami is the icon of the range, the first “rebel tatami” .
Ville : Kyoto, Japan
Équipe : Nicolas Omet, Misturu Yokoyama
Fabrication : Misturu Yokoyama
Prestation : Design et développement
Installation at the Museum of Decorative Arts
The designer invites Benoît Bonnemaison-Fitte (Bonnefrite) and Nicolas Omet to join him, under the name GORKI! Together, they design a 19-flag course, a large, entirely homemade construction game inspired by golf and fishing. They create a series of mass-tinted concrete blocks to be stacked in an infinite number of configurations, on which they place hand-painted bamboo picked from the southwest. The whole thing is topped with ultra-communicative flags by Bonnefrite, to perfect a relationship between playful expressionism and assertive low-tech.
City: Paris
Client: D'Days
Surface area: 1500 m2
Team: Johan Brunel, Benoît Bonnemaison-Fitte,
Nicolas Omet
Service: Scenography