LOVE ONE

MILESTONE

kaiken — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:35:36 +0000

photo: Takumi Ota

A one-and-only bicycle stand.

Utilising blocks of stone, we will carve slits in the stone that perfectly match and hold the user’s bike.

Reflecting on the recent trend to park our bicycles inside our house, we have designed and created our stone bicycle stand, “MILESTONE.”

Practicle and sturdy, this product transcends categorisation of any kind — neither as sculpture or an object of nature. Connecting the indoors and outdoors, it serves as a buffer to blend your bicycle inside your room. The slits carved in solid stone will hold memories of you with your bike.

MILE
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Design project MILE is formed by acoustic engineer, Bandai Matsuo, software engineer, Kentaro Kai and interior designer, Kozo Shimoyama. As like the proverb, “Three heads are better than one” (the Chinese character for “MILE” can be read as “san” meaning three in Japanese), the trio are expanding their design activities, fully utilising each member’s specialty. Incorporating humor-filled storytelling in their ideas and design, they create products that plesantly link people, objects and space. In Milan Salone 2009, the trio has been selected as one of the aspiring 24 groups of young talents by ELLE DECO from various countries.

Materials

Marble

Weight

24 kg (52.9 lbs)

Dimensions

Manufacturer

Koubou Kawasaki

Price

Color		Price
white		78,000 JPY (include tax)
black		78,000 JPY (include tax)

Delivery

One month and a half

Product and Sales Inquiries

stone@weloveone.com

DOOR HANDLE+

kaiken — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:23:12 +0000

photo: Takumi Ota

This product was born when we met an artist who gave serious thoughts to designing door handles — an object that we touch and use every day.

“Door Handle+,” a product of collaboration with designer, Yota Kakuda and MILE, is designed with a parallel surface to the door, which smoothly blends in with the surrounding architecture. Seemingly flat, there is a small dent that naturally fits your thumb finger when you hold the handle. With the passing of time, this repeated action will engrave memories on the handle, which has been purposely left without surface finishing.

The creation of this brass door handle, rare in standard products, was capable only through this project, “LOVE ONE.”

Yota Kakuda
www.yotakakuda.com

Yota Kakuda was born in 1979 in Japan. In 2003, he relocated his main place of work to London, and gained experience working at various design studios including Shin and Tomoko Azumi and Ross Lovegrove. He attended the Royal College of Art in 2005 on scholarship funded by the Japanese Culture Agency given to aspiring artists, graduating with a M.A. in Design Products in 2007. He is currently based in Tokyo.

Materials

Brass

Dimensions

Manufacturer

NOUSAKU

Price

88,000 JPY (include tax)

Delivery

two months

Product and Sales Inquiries

handle@weloveone.com

TRIO

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:12:33 +0000

photo: Takumi Ota

A unique furniture with with three legs, derived from the image of obi, Japanese belts, connected to a flat board.

Blending in with the everyday scene of life, TRIO was created through a simple process to employ only one material in one manufacturing method.

The unique charcteristics of carbon fiber, with its high tensile strength and elasticity, allowed us to twist the legs as if it were a belt, creating the beautiful form whilst taking advantage of its lightness.

At one glance, TRIO may seem mechanic, however, it is actually manufactured with careful detail, through the process of composite laminating in creating the desired shape with the hands of a craftman, as if it were a piece of traditional applied art. TRIO can be used as a stool or a small table.

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Materials

Carbon fiber UD / Matt finish

Weight

1,150 g (2.5 lbs)

Dimensions

Manufacturer

Ibaraki Industrial Corporation

Prices

Edition		Price
#1 – #10		~~126,000 JPY~~
#11 – #20		157,500 JPY
#21 – #30		178,500 JPY

* All prices include tax.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
sold	sold	sold	sold	sold	sold	sold	sold	sold	sold
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30

Delivery

one month

Product and Sales Inquiries

trio@weloveone.com

Unfortunately, we can make only 30 sets of “TRIO” available this time.

About “LOVE ONE”

kaiken — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:21:07 +0000

One material, one method.

LOVE ONE is a project that sees thorough all process of manufacturing from beginning to end.

In recent years, mass production has become the norm, making it increasingly difficult to produce products on smaller scale. More often than not, products are finalised leaving even the designers in the dark, unaware and uninvolved in the whole process. We do understand that this shift in style is the result of repeated optimization in manufacturing, and is part of the evolution process. We have no intentions of denying its advantages. However, here, at LOVE ONE, we choose to opt for a slightly different apporoach, a more flexible and mobile way of production.

As one approach, we have decided to limit our usage of material and factory to one. In doing so, it enables us to create products as if we are continuously cutting pieces of textile from cloth. We also minimize storage risks.

We are hoping that many designers can relate deeply to the process of manufacturing through our project, LOVE ONE.

November. 2009
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