{"id":19922,"date":"2014-04-05T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=19922"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:38:22","slug":"kawara-chair","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/en\/makeme\/catalog\/kawara-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawara Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs container\" role=\"navigation\">\n\n                <p>\n                <span>\n                    <span>\n                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/en\/\" target=\"\">\u0141DF<\/a>\n                            \/\n                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/en\/makeme\/\" target=\"\">make me!<\/a>\n                            \/\n                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/en\/makeme\/catalog\/\" target=\"\">Catalog<\/a>\n                            \/\n                        \n                        <strong class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\"><\/strong>\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/span>\n            <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ldf-heading-block container\">\n\n    <div class=\"ldf-heading-block__inner-part\">\n\n        <div class=\"ldf-heading-block__left-part\">\n            <h1>\n                Kawara Chair\n            <\/h1>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ldf-content-block container\">\n    <p><strong>DESIGN:<\/strong> Tsuyoshi Hayashi<\/p>\n<p>Japan\/Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>make me! 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Designed &#8220;Kawara Chair&#8221; as his graduation project in 2012. The inspiration for the project was traditional Japanese architecture and wood joinery. &#8220;Kawara Chair&#8221; is designed to salvage industrially rejected Japanese roof top tiles that would otherwise be discarded. Because of ceramic property, it is difficult to avoid generating defectives and hard to recycle them once fired.\u00a0 Even though it has still unique value such as color and shape, more than 65,000 pieces of roof tiles are yearly discarded just because of tiny defectives. In the end, roof tile factories produce valuable waste and pay a lot for disposal. Tsuyoshi believed &#8220;useless wastes&#8221; can be rendered to &#8220;useful matter&#8221; once again by just cutting off only the damaged part and mounting them into a wooden structure. This is why and how, he designed &#8220;Kawara Chair&#8221;. Each roof tile seating of &#8220;Kawara Chair&#8221; can fit to the wooden structure by just mounting it without glue or nails. That enables people to replace or change colors of seating as they wish. In project these materials were used: cut-off roof tiles as seating and wooden chair structure such as oak, cherry maple and ebony.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    \n                \n\n\n<div class=\"ldf-images container\n    ldf-images-margin        \"\n>\n        <div>\n            \n                <div class=\"single-image-desc\"\n                                            style=\"width: calc( 99% \/ 2 );\"\n                                    >\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-894899236\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t                        <p class=\"single-image-description\">Kawara Chair, design: Tsuyoshi Hayashi\u00a0\/ from the designer&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n                \n            \n                <div class=\"single-image-desc\"\n                                            style=\"width: calc( 99% \/ 2 );\"\n                                    >\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-894899236\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI-.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t                        <p class=\"single-image-description\">Kawara Chair, design: Tsuyoshi Hayashi\u00a0\/ from the designer&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <\/div><div>\n                \n            \n                <div class=\"single-image-desc\"\n                                            style=\"width: calc( 99% \/ 2 );\"\n                                    >\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-894899236\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI.-.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LDF2014-make-me-Kawara-Chairi-TSUYOSHI-HAYASHI.-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t                        <p class=\"single-image-description\">Kawara Chair, design: Tsuyoshi Hayashi\u00a0\/ from the designer&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n                \n                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"right-image-left-content-block container\">\n\n    <div class=\"right-image-left-content-block__inner-part\">\n\n        <div class=\"right-image-left-content-block__left-part\" style=\"width: 60%;\">\n                            <h2>\n                    Tsuyoshi Hayashi\n                <\/h2>\n            \n            <p>\n                A Japanese designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.\n            <\/p>\n\n                            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsuyoshihayashi.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ldf-button\">DESIGNER&#8217;S PORTFOLIO  <span class=\"ldf-chevron ldf-chevron-right\"><\/span><\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"right-image-left-content-block__right-part\" style=\"width: 40%;\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lodzdesign.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LDF-make-me-kafelek-uni.png\" alt=\"\">\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":19925,"parent":5287,"menu_order":0,"template":"","year_project":[283],"project_type":[],"class_list":["post-19922","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","year_project-2014-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kawara Chair - \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Design Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The inspiration for a chair was Japanese architecture and joinery. 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