Jun Murakoshi

Jun Murakoshi was born in 1978 in Saitams, in Japan. He’s influenced by designs and forms. He had his master of Engineering in Industrial design from the Chiba university Graduates school. He completed his studies at design products in Royal College of Art in 2007, for his research student in London. It is in this university that the Japanese designer makes his chair ‘Shelving Chair’.

It was in 2007 that created this chair based on the stack. This chair is stackable with other while maintaining a functional and esthetic side, so the shelf is mounted by the fact overlay a chair on the other. The chair turns into shelf and thus loses her visual of chair.

This chair has a structure in beech wood with a panel honeycomb cardboard. The honeycomb panel is a material known for its rigidity and lightness to the object. This is caused to the recess in the middle of the panel which forms hexagonal cells.

This chair is covered by birch plywood, which makes it a better manipulation of the chair because are not massive materials. On the top of the chair Murakoshi used felt for comfort and also creates a good holding by its rigid texture.

. This chair is composed of three empty and hollow under the seat and backrest. The chairs are asymmetric. It possessed many angles giving an appearance of unbalance, in particular panels of the chair which are oblique.

After the overlapping and assembled of Chairs, the shelf is composed of wide and narrow storage space for books, decorating as a vase for example, can be placed in them hollows. The chairs are stacked according to the desire of the user. Of cantilevers can be created by stacking. this chair is the module that made the shelf and also serves as the foundation. The weight is distributed over the three legs of the chair.

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