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Tatamu Folding Stool by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko is a winner of the 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design.

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Tatamu Folding Stool by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko Silver Furniture Design Award Winner 2020

Tatamu Folding Stool

By 2050 two thirds of the earth population will live in cities. The main ambition behind Tatamu is to provide flexible furniture for people whose space is limited, including those who are frequently moving. The aim is to create an intuitive furniture that combines robustness with an ultra-thin shape. It takes only one twisting movement to deploy the stool. While all the hinges made of durable fabric keeping it light weight, the wooden sides provide stability. Once pressure is applied to it, the stool only gets stronger as its pieces lock together, thanks to its unique mechanism and geometry.

Tatamu Folding Stool by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko Silver Furniture Design Award Winner 2020
Silver Furniture Design Award Winner 2020 Tatamu Folding Stool
Tatamu designed by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko
Silver Furniture Design Award Winner 2020 Tatamu Folding Stool
Tatamu designed by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko

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Tatamu Folding Stool

Tatamu is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Tatamu is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Tatamu is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.


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Tatamu

Tatamu is a group of Tokyo-based architects and designers. They have learned to live, work and socialize in tiny, vibrant, multi-functional spaces; their dream is to distill Tokyo urban lifestyle into everyday, functional and beautiful furniture. Furniture that adapts to, reacts to and interacts with our increasingly mobile lives.


Tatamu Folding Stool by Mate Meszaros and Hirotaka Mashiko Silver Furniture Design Award Winner 2020

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