KUMAMON Chair
Commissioned by Kumamoto Prefecture, we designed a chair for KUMAMON, a popular bear character that is the mascot of Kumamoto. The form of the chair was shaped by kneading clay by hand to achieve balanced ambivalence between being both a chair and a “KUMA (bear)”. The clay model was then 3D scanned, enlarged based upon the on collected data, and milled from a block of cedar using Maeda Corporation’s 6-axis CNC cutter. This way, the gentle yet powerful nature of Kumamoto’s signature bear was expressed through a solid cedar.