ITOKI's "vertebra03 WOOD" wins the highest award, "Best of the Best," at the Red Dot Design Award 2024!
"common furniture / Partition" and "Feels" also win the "Red Dot Design Award 2024"
ITOKI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato) has won the "Best of the Best" award in the product design category of the internationally prestigious German "Red Dot Design Award 2024," which is awarded to particularly outstanding designs. In addition, common furniture Partition and Feels have also won the "Red Dot Design Award 2024."
Best of the Best Award Winning Products
・ vertebra03 WOOD
vertebra03 WOOD combines the warmth of wood with ITOKI's unique ergonomics. The back and seat are cut and shaped from solid chestnut wood, a domestic hardwood, by Karimoku Furniture. The company's know-how in making wooden furniture and ITOKI's design technology utilizing ergonomics and seat tracers have made it possible to create an optimal back and seat shape that follows the working posture while making the most of the texture of the wood. Other features include a non-slip seating surface to stabilize the seating position and painting technology that expresses delicate coloring while leaving the wood grain intact.
Designer: Fumie Shibata
Product page: https://vertebra.jp/lineup/vertebra-wood/
Red Dot Design Award 2024 Winners
・ common furniture furniture / Partition
common furniture / Partition is a partition from the "common furniture" series, a brand that includes furniture and partitions that realize free and creative spaces, based on the concept of "universality and freedom." By freely combining various frame styles, panel patterns, and colors, you can design a space that is uniquely yours.
Designer: Naruse-Inokuma Architectural Design Office Yuri Naruse / Jun Inokuma / Ryo Odaka
Yukiyoshi Kato, Product Design Department ITOKI CORPORATION
Product page: https://www.itoki.jp/special/common-furniture/
・ Feels
Feels is a non-flammable partition with a veneer finish that responds to the trend toward wooden interiors, which is following the trend toward wooden construction and wood-based structures in buildings, and creates a comfortable space. It reproduces the texture of solid wood while also achieving fire resistance. In addition, by unitizing with a unified design, it allows you to smartly coordinate the wood-based office space.
Designer: Ryu Yamamoto, Product Design Department, ITOKI CORPORATION
Product page: https://www.itoki.info/products/zoning/feels/
About the Red Dot Design Award
This is an internationally prestigious design award that has been held since 1955 by the North Rhine-Westphalia Design Center in Essen, Germany. Comprised of three categories: Product Design, Communication Design, and Design Concept, designs that have been commercialized within the past two years are judged based on nine criteria, including design innovation, functionality, ergonomics, ecology, and durability. will be done.
Red Dot Design Award official website: https://www.red-dot.org/
About Itoki's Workplace Business
ITOKI CORPORATION was founded in 1890. With the mission statement of "We Design Tomorrow. We Design WORK-Style." the company supports the creation of a variety of "spaces," "environments," and "places" by leveraging its strengths of "Tech x Design based on PEOPLE," including the manufacture and sale of office furniture, office space design, “Space," “Environment," and “Place" consulting, and office data analysis services, as well as furniture for working from home and studying at home, and equipment for public facilities and logistics facilities.
As hybrid work becomes more common and places and ways of working become more diverse, we are developing spatial digital transformation to enhance productivity and creativity, as well as consulting services to support optimal office operations. We are also proactively collaborating with external designers and partner companies to propose new work styles and workplaces for the future.
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