Lost in Sofa by Daisuke Motogi Architecture

Tokyo 2010: Japanese studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture presented this armchair for holding and hiding things at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this week.

Items can be stored by wedging them into slots between the upholstered cubes that form the seat.

Photographs are by Takahumi Yamada.

Here’s a bit of text from the designer:

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Lost in sofa

Things often get lost under the sofa. It’s ordinary for a coin which slipped out of your pocket, or a never-to-be-found remote to be accidentally found in between/underneath the sofa cushions. Maybe you’ll find a forgotten 10,000yen bill that you once hid there…

Size : W900 D700 H700

Sleepy Chair by Daisuke Motogi Architecture

Tokyo 2010: here’s another chair by Japanese design studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture (see our earlier story), this time made from a thin mattress folded into a concertina.

Called Sleepy Chair, the project was presented at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this week.

Photographs are by Takahumi Yamada.

Here’s a tiny bit of text from the designer:

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Sleepy chair

A chair as a blanket which provides a space of warmth and happiness.

Size : W700 D1100 H950

DAISKE MOTOGI
Born in 1981 in the Saitama Japan
2004 Graduated from Musashino Art University
2004~2010 Worked for Schemata Architecture Office
2010 Daisuke Motogi Architecture