Showroom
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Our Showroom
For over 100 years SHIKADA SANGYO has been using bamboo, our locally produced material, to weave SHIKADA WOVEN. In January 2023, we will open the SHIKADA SHITURAI SHOWROOM, refurbished with the concept of a next-generation hotel space with sustainable products made with bamboo and rattan, as a place to experiment SHIKADA WOVEN’s new decorative purposes and performance. Here is a documentary video following the scenes leading up to the opening.
A Next-Generation Hotel Space Made From Sustainable Materials
SHIKADA SHITSURAI offers only items that will be in demand in the next generation of progressing decarbonization, such as natural bamboo sudare screen, small articles made from sudare woven, rattan furniture, and interior furnishing made from rattan woven. You can experience construction examples in a hotel-like space at the SHIKADA SHITSURAI Showroom.
See firsthand how bamboo and rattan material is incorporated as interior furnishing in commercial spaces such as hotels and restaurants.
See firsthand how bamboo and rattan material is incorporated as interior furnishing in commercial spaces such as hotels and restaurants.
Graceful Arches of Interwoven Sudare
The entrance hall greets you with bamboo of various appearances. The wall surfaces express artisans’ handwork, from the creation of the thin bamboo strips that make sudare by splitting cut bamboo, to weaving this as sudare woven. Jet-black sudare on the ceiling forms elegant, subtly lit arches. The lines are fluid yet firm, gentle yet precise. The delicate bamboo sudare there gives the illuminated ceiling a sharp feel. It has a dignified beauty.
The Graceful Impact of the Ceiling Decorations
Elegant, sudare-formed curves decorate the ceiling of the hotel lounge space. Sudare woven of 1 m wide and about 77 m long overall hangs vertically, creating a space that is dynamic, peaceful, and organic. Kengo Kuma’s aurora-like design was actually used in commercial facilities in Japan and abroad. Here, it is updated to add spiral gradations. The arranged rattan furniture is also Kuma’s first product design. The design appears to be one stroke, using the strengths of rattan materials that combine lightness and durability.
Message from the Architect
Coming out of the tunnel of black cedar, an otherworldly space of semi-transparent delicate screens = sudare appears. Beginning with the process of transforming bamboo into sudare, I wanted to create a place where people can experience the various possibilities of sudare. We designed furniture to match the sudare, and by varying the light, transparency and atmosphere in several areas, different spatial conditions and life stages were expressed in this special space.
Biography
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He graduated from the Graduate School Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo. He established Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990. He is currently a University Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo after teaching at Keio University and the University of Tokyo. KKAA projects are currently underway in more than 30 countries. Kengo Kuma strives for architecture that blends with the local environment and culture, offering flexible design on a simple human scale. He has used sudare in interiors and furniture, in Japan and abroad, for about 10 years. This design, his first attempt at rattan furniture, expresses rattan’s soft curves and continuity.
