tokujin yoshioka: 'memory' for moroso

japanese designer tokujin yoshioka has designed 'memory' chair for italian company moroso,
which will be presented during milan design week 2010.


'memory' chair sequence

'memory' is a chair of unlimited forms. its design is completed through the alteration
of its silhouette. for the project, yoshioka developed a special fabric made with recycled aluminum,
which he has used to create a chair that transforms and memorizes its shape upon use.

'based on a concept which I conceived several years ago, we spent more than one year
conducting experiments and verifications by making more than 50 actual scale models with aluminum.
also for the fabric, I searched the most appropriate fabric that can realize the initial concept image,
and I finally came to develop a fabric with recycled aluminum. after repetition of trial and error,
'memory', a chair that transforms and memorizes its shape by the intention of users, was completed.
'memory' has 'a deliberate loose form'.(...) I believe that the chair could be called 'a chair without a
design.' at the same time, this is a chair that has an unlimited variety of forms.' - TY

final silver prototype made from fabric of recycled aluminum

black prototype made from fabric of recycled aluminum

'failures' - study models were made from aluminum

potential effect of the material - this image is not of the final fabric