NOSIGNER's work with the ARAKAWA GRIP includes interior design for REN, a store dedicated to house plants. The store offers indoor greenery as a branch of Tokyo Ikebana, a floral store founded over 100 years ago that specializes in Ikebana flower arrangement supplies.
In order to care for each plant, racks were built to float the plants in the air, flexibly configuring the space. The planters were made to coast, with emphasis on eye level because the client emphasized the importance of "arranging flowers in the space" and the desire to make each plant have a presence comparable to that of a bonsai tree rather than simply adding to the excitement of the space by sheer volume. Since the size of the plants in the pots changes each time they are replaced, it made sense to use ARAKAWA GRIP to allow the height to be adjusted as desired, and the wires were attached to the bottom of the planters with magnets. In addition, we wanted to create a sense of lightness that could be expanded solely with this fixture for multiple store openings and events. A lightweight finish is achieved when you work out the design with tension (tensile member). My wish for ARAKAWA GRIP in the future is to pursue the direction of utilizing the texture of solid metal that is not plated. While similar products are mass-produced in other countries,
ARAKAWA GRIP should take its flagship in quality. For this purpose, aesthetic expression through minimalist design and materiality must be pursued. While ARAKAWA GRIP continues to lead the market, I believe now is the time they establish their position as the world's finest supplier of grips. text by Masaaki Takahashi
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Plants in the Air
Eisuke Tachikawa
Eisuke Tachikawa
NOSIGNER
Founder, NOSIGNER / President, JIDA / Board Member, WDO Eisuke Tachikawa is a design strategist, an Associate Professor at Keio University, and the founder of NOSIGNER. In implementing social context—to create a beautiful future with social design and structure design knowledge—to clarify different ways of thinking and increase innovators, we have continued design from a social perspective to realize various design projects related to social issues. He advocates “Evolutional Creativity,” a new educational method teaching the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution.
Some of his most renowned projects include Tokyo Bousai, PANDAID, and the basic concept of the Japan Pavilion for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. His renowned book “Evolutional Creativity” (Ama No Kaze, 2021) won the 30th Shichihei Yamamoto Prize.