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Two ITOKI products and one booth win the iF Design Award 2025, one of the world's three major design awards!
vertebra03 WOOD, Hoteling Label, Orgatec Tokyo ITOKI Booth Awards
Two products and one booth of ITOKI CORPORATION (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato) have won the iF Design Award 2025, one of the most prestigious design awards in the world. The products are vertebra03 WOOD, Hoteling Label, and Orgatec Tokyo ITOKI Booth.
・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://catalog.itoki.jp/series/ShowSeries.action?seriesCode=2319
Special site: https://vertebra.jp/lineup/vertebra-wood/
・Hoteling Label
This product uses a small, completely wireless device that can be easily installed and expanded. By visualizing usage in real time, it prevents misuse and overuse of reserved time, smooths the use of space in the office, and realizes efficient office operations.
Using energy-saving electronic paper and wireless communication, it consumes power only when switching the display, so it is battery-powered and does not require wiring. In addition, it comes with attachments for desk and wall mounting, making it easy to install in a variety of spaces.
Designers: Takamura Eka and Ishizuka Miharu, Product Planning Department ITOKI CORPORATION
Product page: https://catalog.itoki.jp/series/ShowSeriesSection1.action?seriesCode=2481
・Orgatec Tokyo ITOKI Booth
The ITOKI exhibition booth at ORGATEC TOKYO displayed ITOKI and five other global furniture brands under the concept of "&ITOKI" as a solution to the evolution of the workplace, which supports diverse working styles regardless of location or style.
This exhibition space intuitively conveys the company's stance as an office furniture manufacturer and a "platform provider of designer office furniture," which is to "deliver free and beautiful choices and new working comfort to the world of the workplace through an extensive product lineup and spatial proposals that transcend brands."
The design theme also references the relationship between solids and gases.
The pipe curtains that cover the entire space are inspired by fog and clouds, and are likened to gas, embodying the all-encompassing image of a platform that connects brands.
The pipe curtain is made up of approximately 3,000 recyclable and remoldable PVC pipes.
Nippon Design Center Inc.
Art Director: Yoshiaki Irobe, Designer: Yasuhiro Yasuda, Zhang Kexin, Copywriter: Kaori Nagase, Pr: Mizuho Morita
Spatial Designer: Takashi Nakahara + Akane Kosaka
ITOKI CORPORATION
Designers: Naoyuki Okada, Sachiko Kayama, Akira Hosoda, Sakiho Kamauchi, Kento Watanabe
Event page: https://www.itoki.jp/event/orgatec-tokyo/2024/index.html
About “iF Design Award”
It is one of the most prestigious international design awards, which has been held since 1954 by iF International Forum Design, based in Hannover, Germany. The awards are made up of nine categories: Product, Packaging, Communication, Service Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Professional Concept, UX (User Experience), and UI (User Interface). This year's awards were rigorously reviewed and selected by 131 design experts active around the world from among approximately 11,000 submitted designs from 66 countries and regions.
iF Design Award 2025 official website: https://www.ifdesign.com/en/
About ITOKI's office-related business
Since its founding in 1890, ITOKI CORPORATION has upheld the mission statement of We Design Tomorrow. We Design WORK-Style." and has supported the creation of a wide range “Space," “Environment," and “Place" with a wide lineup of office furniture, logistics equipment, ICT and audiovisual equipment, and building materials and interior equipment.
Since the COVID-19 shock, we have come to view the entire workplace as “Work Environment”" and by providing a total range of products and services to create environments where office workers "work together," as well as products that support "distributed working" environments such home furnishings to facilitate remote work and home learning, and surveys and consulting services for corporate work style strategies and improving the working environment, we are helping to create “Work Environment” in any space.
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