DOOR HANDLE+
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 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
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Manufacturer
NOUSAKU
