Matrix

During the Milan Design Week 2017, Tokujin Yoshioka in collaboration with Kartell presents Matrix, the new three-dimensional acrylic resin chair. #MDW2017

The structures unique to material have been the core of Tokujin Yoshioka’s chair designs; such as “Honey-pop” made of piled up papers to form a honey-comb structure, “PANE chair” in which the fiber itself is the structural body, and “VENUS – Natural crystal chair” which takes its shape by making crystals grow.

Matrix chair, Tokujin Yoshioka, Kartell, 2017

  For this project, Tokujin Yoshioka designed the structure itself and created an innovative chair made of acrylic resin. It is formed by casting with two layers of matrix-state structure using an injection molding technique.

Matrix chair, Tokujin Yoshioka, Kartell, 2017

This chair was realized when Tokujin Yoshioka’s experimental creations stemming from numbers of studies met the Kartell’s edgy yet sophisticated technology which broadens the possibility of acrylic resin.

Matrix chair, Tokujin Yoshioka, Kartell, 2017