Snow Flakes at the Windsor department exhibition in Plot gallery, Tokyo

Snow Flakes is a family of seatings inspired by the Windsor chairs (have many alternative names), the one exhibited here is a lounge or reading chair. I is made in African teak and Corian, has a low-wide seat and a single wide armrest with place for a glass of hot chocolate or whisky according to you linkings. Do not expect us to put chair with seats in Corian into production, this is an exhibition only chair, but the Corian is fantastic for this use as it is a perfect contrast to the wood (see pictures), and bring references to the paint used in american Windsors.

Thanks goes to De Stalis Scale (http://www.destalisscale.com/) in Tolmezzo, Italy, for making this possible. Without the expertice of two generations of cabinet makers working day and night we had never made it, and also to Mr. Codutti for his expertice working with Corian (http://www.altacucina.net/)

Snow Flakes is our first furniture sub-tagged “Windsor department”, this is a group of architects and designers with a special interest in Windsor chairs, we discuss the history of the Windsors and how to keep it alive, hold exhibition showing the outcome and hold talkshows with open discussions for those who wish to partisipate, se more (currently only in Japanese at windsordepartment.com).

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このプロジェクトは、トヨタ社の車生産の工場などで使用されるロボット製作の代表的な会社、千秋技研株式会社が手がける、彼らの非常に高い技術力を用いての医療分野参入の第一号です。名古屋大などの医師や教授群とチームを組み、開発を続けてきました。

まだ、プロジェクトは終わったわけではありません。しかし、一度ここで、ある程度まとまった結果を名古屋の技術交流が行われる、「メッセ・ナゴヤ」展示会に出展し、公開する運びとなりました。

このロボットは、近年注目を浴びる内視鏡手術ロボット、「ダ･ビンチ」のような手術を実際に行うわけではなく、あくまでも手術医の補助として、内視鏡手術時に医師一人一人に付き添うナースのような役目を果たします。

2011年11月9日(水)－12日(土)　千秋技研株式会社
場所：メッセナゴヤ2011/ポートメッセなごや
第一次モデル、内視鏡手術の補助をする医療ロボットが公開されます。

DC10 is an evolution in our works on contemporary furniture with references to both of furniture craftsmanship in a historical sense and modern production with all the possibilities this gives. This chair is either shell nor skeleton it looks like a stick structure but has only two surfaces, one outside and one inside meeting in a very sharp edge. As it has almost become our trademark the sculpturing of surfaces does not stop anywhere so letting your hands wander by the curves in the wood there is continuous shapes to be explored everywhere. We trust this chair to be a milestone in our furniture design and are curios to see how it will be received.