Next-generation tableware woven by ceramics and different materials is launched from Japan
The first project is “bamboo” and the second is “tin”. Next-generation tableware woven by ceramics and different materials is launched
NIKKO COMPANY has launched “Material Waves™,” a project to discover new values created by crossing NIKKO FINE BONE CHINA with different materials, as it explores new things for the next 100 years.
Two series of tableware, “RINKOU” and “SUZUHAKU” will be released as the first and second products of the project. Both series are products that have been completed through a process of trial and error, making full use of the technology that has been cultivated up to now.
NIKKO has been involved in ceramics for over 100 years and has encountered a wide variety of people and materials. In the “Material Waves™” project launched this year, NIKKO has taken on the challenge of collaborating with bamboo crafts by Chifuyu Enomoto, a bamboo craft artist, and tin by NOUSAKU CORPORATION, a cast metal manufacturer in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture.
This project started with the idea that “by sharing techniques and knowledge among people who have faced different materials, we can create products and new values that have never existed before.” By crossing different materials to create new products and continuously disseminating them, we aim to transcend the boundaries between crafts and industrial products, and to preserve the handiwork and traditions of industries and craftspeople throughout Japan.
All materials have wave properties, and the waves that express these properties are called “material wave”. The name of the project is derived from the hope that the waves generated by NIKKO will be transmitted one after another and eventually bring about changes in various forms, while expressing the new possibilities created by the combination of the waves of each material, such as ceramics, bamboo, metal, glass, wood, and so on.
Product Details
・RINKOU Material / Bamboo and NIKKO FINE BONE CHINA
Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLaswdScjhU
・SUZUHAKU Material / Tin (three colors by gold foil, copper foil and tin foil)
Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiDnV1vqqp4