OTOWA ICHIMURA

I’d like to create designs that give form to the presence of something invisible.

People sometimes describe music as “like the wind,” but the wind isn’t actually blowing.

In this way, people can certainly sense something that shouldn’t actually exist. It’s like a ghost.

In those moments, I feel as if I’m touching the deepest parts of human memories and emotions.

Through design and craftsmanship, I’d like to create experiences that allow us to once again touch upon the “latent perception” that we have almost forgotten in the course of our daily lives.

It may be nostalgia, or it may be an unexplainable feeling of discomfort or uneasiness. If such things can be embedded in furniture, tools, and spaces, the design will not be merely a tool to be used, but will become an “existence” that lives together with people, clothed in memories and signs of its presence.