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ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK 20I6June 22 – 26, 20I6Asahikawa Furniture Center, Manufacturers

Asahikawa Furniture Industry CooperativeNagayama 2-10, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 079-8412 Japan TEL 0166-48-4135 ／ FAX 0166-48-4749 　www.asahikawa-kagu.or.jp

ADW Project MembersNaoyuki Watanabe (Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative Chairman)、Yoshimasa Sugimoto (Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative）、Misae Kudo (Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative）、Yohei Sekiguchi (Isamiya)、Tsutomu Nohara (Alflex Japan)、Tetsuya Fujita (Conde House)、Noriyoshi Someya (Conde House)、Masafumi Iwamitsu (Create Furniture)、Yujiro Sasaki (Sasaki kogei)、Masanobu Hasegawa (Taisetsu Mokko)、Kenji Nakai (Takumi Kohgei)、Yasushi Yoshida (Prestige Japan)、Hiroshi Nohara (Mobel Toko)

ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK

The total number of visitors: 10,500■Asahikawa Furniture Center: 5,304 (increase 26% over the previous year: 4,224)■Special talk event by Tsuyoshi Tane: 555■Special exhibition of Oda collection̶Timeless pieces, Nordic design at home:1,511■Sou Fujimoto exhibition̶FUTURE OF THE FUTURE in ASAHIKAWA: 1,025■Milano Salone Description & Japanese Wood Furniture Summit: 166■Panel session by magazine chief editors: 152■Panel discussion̶Future of manufacturing in Asahikawa: 120■ADW factory tour: 21■Foot path to Miura Ayako Literature Museum: 60■Neighboring town tour (Nakagawa town, Toma town, Higashikawa town): 20■Higashikagura Glamping and Marche: 1,559

number of visitors of other related events■ADW official party: 1,061■ADW BAR: 494■ACDA exhibition 2016: 1,338■Trial manufacturing lesson for families: 62■Moku Moku Festa 2016: 2,900

In the second year , under the name o f “ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK”, we more wide ly disseminated the craftsmanship and creation enthusiasm of manufacturers in Asahikawa and neighborhood areas through improving the main contents provided by exhibitors, such as new product launches, factory tours, etc.Event sites expanded to more neighboring areas, and we are certain this event, thanks to many supports across industry boundaries from official partners, etc. , took a step forward to only one communication space attracting people interested in design in those areas.

Organizers: Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative, Asahikawa city government, and Asahikawa Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Supporting Organizations: Japan Interior Industry Association, The Japan Interior Designer Association, Japan Interior Coordinator Association,

The Japan Interior Planner Association,Asahikawa Design Association, Moku Moku Festa Management Committee

Date: June 22（Wed） － 28（Sun）Venue: Asahikawa Furniture Center （Nagayama 2-10, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 079-8412 Japan）

and factories, shops, etc. of participating manufacturers in Asahikawa, Higashikawa, and Higashikagura

ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEKADW SPECIAL INSTALLATIONDate and t ime : June 22（Wed） ～ 26（Sun） 9 : 00a .m .～6 :00p .m . Venue : Asah ikawa Furn i ture Center

PARRTS TO THE FURNITURE

Mr. Sou Fujimoto is an Asahikawa-born architect who held a special installation last year, and he passed the baton to another

Asahikawa-related architect, Mr. Tsuyoshi Tane. He had lived in Asahikawa while learning architecture at Hokkaido Tokai Univ.

(Asahikawa campus). PARTS TO THE FURNITURE is the title of the installation by this world’s high profile young architect. The

installation with about 400 chair parts dancing in the air was certainly the symbol of ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK 2016. The

installation received a lot of media exposure and impressed more than 5,000 people visiting Asahikawa Furniture Center, the main

venue of ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK.

Furniture is made by the combination of “parts”. Wood is sawn, selected after close check, and processed to parts without wastes; those parts are combined up to beautiful furniture. When visiting manufacturers and their factories in Asahikawa and seeing such ordinary and proper processes, I was impressed and got the feeling it was an origin of creation: design to production.In other words, furniture is made by combining, jointing, and polishing parts, which is difficult especially in case of using wood. If made without deep understanding of wood, wood furniture will eventually break down of itself due to natural wood warping. I have learned furniture manufacturing is realized by long experience in handicraft, inherited knowledge, and creation enthusiasm.My installation, “PARTS TO THE FURNITURE”, is made from furniture parts provided by manufactures in Asahikawa. Those parts are just one step before furniture. I would like visitors to focus on manufacturers’ enthusiasm shown in the details of the parts: sawing patterns, grains, and joints. In the installation, the parts dance in the air, attract us by casting complex shadows on the floor, and get back to their respective factories after exhibition.I heard the history of Asahikawa furniture began in 1989. Wood was from virgin forests covering the north ground. Wood furniture was one of the important living tools. Asahikawa has woven a long history of manufacturing, preserved forests, grown many manufacturers and craftpeople, collected designers: created great designing environment. I definitely think ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK is a big challenge to make the bright future from the inheritance.

The special talk event of this year was held at Asahikawa Taisetsu Cristal Hall with a capacity of 500 people. Fortunately the hall

was fully crowded, and Mr. Tane explained his three main projects including “Estonian National Museum” which took 10 years to

be completed. Subsequently, design journalist Ms. Noriko Kawakami joined as a moderator and got many interesting stories from

him, such as his thoughts on the installation, furniture industry and city development of Asahikawa, etc.

Date and t ime : June 22（Wed）　4:00p .m .～5 :30p .m . Venue : Asah ikawa Ta i se t su Crys ta l Ha l l

ADW SPECIAL TALK EVENT

PARRTS TO THE FURNITURE

DirectionSpatial DesignTechnical SupervisionSound DesignLightingConstructionParts Supply

Tsuyoshi Tane （DGT.）DGT. （Dorell. Ghotmeh. Tane / Architects）Yutaka Endo （LUFTZUG）Masato HatanakaModulex Inc.Hokkaido Roa kobo co.,ltd.CONDE HOUSE co.,ltdMOBEL TOKO co.,ltd.TAKUMI KOHGEI co.,ltd.

At Asahikawa Furniture Center, new collections (furniture and wooden crafts) by 49 manufacturers in Asahikawa were gathered; a

special installation by Mr. Tsuyoshi Tane well symbolized handiwork potentiality and the manufacturing process of beautiful things;

some manufacturers were highly evaluated for the renovation of their exhibition booths in connection with new collection launch. In

addition, as part of the second year initiative by Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative called “Koko no ki no kagu Hokkaido

project”, more than 20 manufacturers launched their new collections made of local wood.

Date and t ime: June 22（Wed）～26（Sun） 9:00a.m.～6:00p.m. Venue: Asahikawa Furniture Center

EXHIBITION

EXHIBITIONDate and t ime: June 22（Wed）～26（Sun） 9:00a.m.～6:00p.m. Venue: Asahikawa Furniture Center

There were 27 participating manufacturers, 5 more compared with last year, opening their factories where visitors can see

technology, skills, design, and craftsmanship of Asahikawa. They also held welcoming events under the name of “All kinds of

Asahikawa foods” and served Mongol ian barbecue, homemade soba noodle , sweets , etc . It is a future task to avoid

overlapping of their menus.

OPEN FACTORRY & ASAHIKAWA FULL COURSEDate: June 22（Wed）～25（Sat）

Venue: Each manufacture’s showroom and factory

OPEN FACTORRY & ASAHIKAWA FULL COURSEDate: June 22（Wed）～25（Sat）

Venue: Each manufacture’s showroom and factory

For the official party, we chose Taisetsu Crystal Hall, expecting record-high more than 600 visitors. Thanks to the good

weather, the number of visitors turned out to be 1,050. People enjoyed Asahikawa gourmet and conversation with new people

at this communication space. We also increased the scale of ADW BAR having received good reputations last year. Its venue

expanded to a part of the main shopping street of Asahikawa, besides two restaurants: Machibar and MORROW’s. The same

as last year, people got most excited at the first night.

OFFICIAL PARTY Date and t ime : June 22（Wed） 6 : 00p .m .～8 :30p .m .Venue : Asah ikawa Ta i se t su Crys ta l Ha l lADW BAR Date and t ime : June 22（Wed） 8 : 00p .m .～11 :00p .m .Venue : mach ibar / MORROW’S

ADW OFFICIAL PARRTY & ADW BAR

At the Chairs Gallery in Asahikawa, Mr. Takahiro Tsuchida curated this special exhibition of Oda collection: the world largest collection of Scandinavian furniture and household goods treasured by chair expert Mr. Noritsugu Oda. Selected were about 60 items from the 20th century. Dining and living scenes were made by those sofas, tables, and cabinets. About 1,500 visitors enjoyed the display of daily life trimmed by beautiful design.

Architect Sou Fujimoto is now very popular, and his exhibitions held in Tokyo last year also got good reviews. Some items were selected from those exhibition for the Station Gallery located inside Asahikawa station as “FUTURE OF THE FUTURE in ASAHIKAWA” which attracted around 1,000 visitors.

Date and t ime : June 14（Tue）～October 30（Sun）10 :00a .m .～6 :00p .m . Venue : Cha i r s Ga l l e ry

ODA COLLECTION

Date and t ime : June 15（Wed）～July 18（Mon）

10 :30a .m .～6 :30p .m .

Venue : S ta t i on Ga l l e ry

SOU FUJIMOTO EXHIBITION

At AEON HALL, held was a talk show by design journalist Mr. Takahiro Tsuchida and Mr. Akio Aoki from MIRU DESIGN, with a theme of Milano Salone, the world’s largest international furniture trade fair. Many people were attracted by world interior trends and beautiful images the two speakers introduced in a light and easy way. The second part of the talk show was a design talk by three Hokkaido-born speakers: Mr. Yamada from pen; Mr. Yamazaki from JDN; Mr. Tsuchida.

“Japanese Wood Furniture Summit” was the final part of the talk show at AEON HALL, where domestic wood utilization for furniture production was discussed among representatives from five competing furniture manufacturers with a positive attitude toward domestic wood utilization: CONDE HOUSE (Asahikawa); Tendo (Yamagata); WISE WISE (Tokyo); Karimoku Furniture (Aichi); Hida Sangyo (Gifu). This is the first trial receiving a great attention, and was decided to be held again in “Hida Furniture Festival 2016” this September. The total number of visitors for this three-part talk show amounted to 170.

Date and t ime : June 23（Thu）9 :30a .m .～10 :30a .m . Venue : AEON MALL around Asah ikawa Sta t i on（AEON HALL）

MILANO SALONE DESCRRIPTION

Date and t ime : June 23（Thu）11 :00a .m .～12 :00p .m . Venue : AEON MALL around Asah ikawa Sta t i on（AEON HALL）

JAPANESE WOOD FURNITURE SUMMIT

We, at AEON HALL, held a panel session by three chief editors from AXIS, ELLE DÉCOR, and WIRED, respectively. Along the main subject of the session, “future viewpoints needed for manufacturing”, they shared their impressions on ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK 2016 and thoughts on how to develop Asahikawa, a city with plenty of skilled people, resources, and infrastructure, through design and manufacturing. The two hours of active discussion just flew so fast that we had to stop it in the middle of Q & A session. What is impressive is it was not only people in the furniture industry but also people in the advertising industry or studying woodworking who joined this discussion. The total number of visitors amounted to around 150.

This event was held at Takumi Kohgei by three panelist who are designers and also the owners of interior shop. They passionately discussed manufacturing of Takumi Kohgei and the future of furniture industry of Asahikawa. Although the number of visitors initially fixed was 50, the event gained much more popularity, and the total number of visitors amounted to 120.

Date and t ime : June 25（Sat） 4 : 00p .m .～6 :00p .m . Venue : AEON MALL around Asah ikawa Sta t i on（AEON HALL）

TALK SESSION

Date and t ime : June 24（Fr i） 1 : 30p .m .～3 :00p .m .Venue : Takumi Kohge i

PANEL DISCUSSION

Panelist/Masaki Tamura from Sempre design, Hidemi Nagoya Hidemi from Ash concept, Mikiya Kobayashi from TAIYO no SHITA

Talk session by chief editors/ AXIS Katsutoshi Ishibashi, ELLE DÉCOR Shigenori Hamaguchi, WIRED Kei Wakabayashi

“Kita kara Life Craft Festival” is one of the largest craft exhibitions in Hokkaido which, by introducing around 150 craftsmen, relays craft culture cultivated in Hokkaido from makers to users. The exhibition has been held four times so far at an underground shopping area in Sapporo. This time, it was downsized and held at Asahikawa Furniture Center, which gathered high attention and did great help to increase the number of visitors.

An annual exhibition was held by Asahikawa Craft Design Association composed of craftsmen in woodworking, glass, pottery, and textile dyeing. In connection with opening an international airport terminal in Asahikawa in 2019, the title of the exhibition was “Craft International Courier” containing the expectation of the association: Asahikawa crafts will be delivered more to all over the world. Around 1,400 people visited Design Gallery.

Date and t ime : June 22（Wed）～26（Sun） 9 : 00a .m .～6 :00p .m . Venue : Asah ikawa Furn i ture Center

KITA KARRA LIFE CRAFT EXHIBITION

Date and t ime : June 14（Tue）～26（Sun） 10 : 00a .m .～6 :00p .m . Venue : Des ign Ga l l e ry

ACDA EXHIBITION

This is a woodworking class where third to sixth grade elementary school kids can learn manufacturing with their parents. For the

two days of weekend, 63 pairs in total experienced manufacturing wooden stools without nails but with wedges and tenons, and

supports by aspiring craftsmen, the students of Asahikawa Technical Training School, received favorable reputation.

Concurrently with ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK, Various events were held, such as “Moku Moku Festa” at Asahikawa Woodwork

Center, “Special Exhibition of AADC (Asahikawa Advertisement Design Council)” at Asahikawa downtown, and synergy-effectively

many people were seen to hop between those events.

Date : June 25（Tue）～26（Sun）

ADW FAMILY && WEEKEND EVENT

Higash ikagura G lamping & Marche

Date : June 25（Sat）～26（Sun）

Venue : H igash ikagura Fores t Park

Nakagawa town fores t tour i sm

Date : June 21（Tue）～22（Wed）

Tohma town t ree growing tour

Date : June 22（Wed）

Higash ikawa town fores t wa lk ing

Date : June 23（Thu）

FOURR NEIGHBORING TOWN EVENT

ASAHIKAWA DESIGN WEEK t o ok a b i g s t ep t oward a mu l t i - a r e a even t t h r ough c o l l a bo r a t i v e even t s w i t h

neighboring towns: Tohma, Higashikawa, Higashikagura, and Nakagawa. Every town was well attracted, and the best

example was Glamping & Marche in Higashikagura, the successor event of “Flower Festa”, which gathered around

1,500 people for the two days of weekend.

*Events of Nakagawa town, Tohma town, H igash ikawa town ran w i th cooperat ion of Asah ikawa Maruun Trave l .

ADVERRTISEMENT

Bes ides ADW logo in b lue symbo l iz ing Ta isetsuzan mounta ins , added were graph ic des igns assoc ia ted wi th the

theme of th is year , “FOCUS”. In order to ra ise exposure as much as poss ib le , we decorated the whole c i ty with

advert is ing tools , such as flags on main streets , st ickers on shutt le taxis and cars of part ic ipat ing manufacturers ,

and signs at publ icspaces .

Early Times Alpha Arflex Japan Isamiya Interior NASU

Interior Hokusho Kobo Wood Works Furniture OHKURA GAUZY CALM WORKS

Katoh Mokkou Kawamoto Furniture CONDE HOUSE kitokurashi no koubou

GOODDOGWOOD Create Furniture Kobo Pecker Kobo Miyaji

Kokey Cosmo cosine Saitoh Design Works SAKURA KOHGEI

Sasaki Kogei SOFA FACTORY Takumi Kohgei fine grain

MANUFACTURRERSDate and t ime: June 22（Wed）～26（Sun） 9:00a.m.～6:00p.m. Venue: Asahikawa Furniture Center , etc .

MIYATA industrial incorporated company MUU KOUBO

Yamamuro-mokkou Yoshino Kogei

USAMI Mokkou

FutureCity Shimokawa

TAKIZAWA Veneer

MÖBEL TOKO Yamaoka Lumber Industry

Dreamy Person Craftman’s work

yamagami mokko Hokkaido Research Organization, Forest Research Development, Forest Products Research Institute

MANUFACTURRERSDate and t ime: June 22（Wed）～26（Sun） 9:00a.m.～6:00p.m. Venue: Asahikawa Furniture Center , etc .

Participating Manufacturers

○Early Times Alpha ○Akashi Mokko ○Arflex Japan ○Isamiya ○Interior NASU ○Interior Hokusho Kobo ○Wood Parts ○Wood Works

○F・Drive Design ○Furniture OHKURA ○GAUZY CALM WORKS ○Katoh Mokkou ○Kawamoto Furniture ○CONDE HOUSE

○KITANOSUMAI SEKKEISHA ○kitokurashi no koubou ○GOODDOGWOOD ○Create Furniture ○Kobo Pecker ○Kobo Mamiana

○Kobo Miyaji ○Kokey Cosmo ○cosine ○Saitoh Design Works ○SAKURA KOHGEI ○Sasaki Kogei ○SOFA FACTORY

○TAISETSU MOKKO ○TIME & STYLE ○Takumi Kohgei ○fine grain ○Plan living ○Fresco ○Hokurei Kosho

○MIYATA industrial incorporated company ○MUU KOUBO ○MÖBEL TOKO ○Yamaoka Lumber Industry ○Yamamuro-mokkou

○Yoshino Kogei ○Route Nishi ○Wakasa ○Dreamy Person ○Craftman’s work ○USAMI Mokkou ○TAKIZAWA Veneer ○yamagami mokko

◯Hokkaido Research Organization, Forest Research Development, Forest Products Research Institute ◯FutureCity Shimokawa