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Catchbowl by Torafu Architects
Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves.
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A quarter segment of the Catchbowl provides a shelf for the inside corner of a room, while the remaining part can be hung around a column edge.
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The bowl has a sycamore veneer with a pattern of radiating triangles on the lid.
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Torafu Architects also designed a set of paper hooks that look like curled pieces of adhesive tape - see all our stories about Torafu Architects here.
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Photography is by Kenpo.
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The following information is from Torafu Architects:
Catch-bowl
We proposed a shelf, focusing on corners, which inevitably exist in every room. When a hemisphere is divided into a quarter and three quarters, the quarter snugly fits into a concave corner and the three quarters onto a convex corner.
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Based on this idea, we created a joyful and lightsome shelf that allows the user to adjust its height and also use it as a bowl to enjoy putting things in it just like playing a ball toss game in an athletics festival.
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On the lid and at the bottom of the bowl, the radial patterns made by the alternately inverted wood grain of the shiny sycamore sliced veneer seem like twinkling stars.
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By splitting into two parts, this bowl catches edges and catches things to become little shelves in the corners of a familiar room. When one part catches its counterpart, they become one whole bowl again.
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Principle use: shelf
Production: Tanseisha Co., Ltd.
Material: Bent plywood, Sycamore, Stainless steel, magnet
Size: 400 mm
Design Period: 2010.04 - 2011.06
Production period: 2011.06 - 2011.07