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【Tense chemistry made in the process】 No matter how many times they have gone through the same process, the product development team gets tense when presenting the first prototype of a new design to designers and receiving their initia...

【Collaboration with Riki Watanabe】 The above is the full-scale drawing of the RIKI WINDSOR collection, one of our chair collections. The development started in 1981 as the first collaboration project with a late renowned Japanese produ...

【Symbol grounding problem: CNC machines and a zebra】 When I first saw CNC machines working at our factory, what came up to my mind was the image of a zebra, funnily enough. To be more precise, it was a sense of superiority to AI that I...

To tell the truth, there's not much profit in restoration work. Every piece of furniture has its own condition made in long-term use. We must exam each and every one of them, remove the upholstery and coating carefully, and decide on how it needs to be restored. It takes time and is unable to be streamlined because no two conditions are the same, but we believe this is something we have to do.

What if we gather all our technologies to make furniture without any thought of cost? This is the starting point of our Lux collection, but the financial crisis drove us to change the concept of the Lux collection itself. Even though how much we improved quality, the market conditions didn't allow luxury goods any more, at least in Japan at that time. We had to apply all of our technologies to cost reduction as well.

【The long-selling chair was born unexpectedly】 This is a story about one of our long-selling chairs, of which name is "Golfer." You will find it in the line from the rear leg to the backrest. The back part of the chair frame looks like...