page_title: Setsu & Shinobu Ito
section_title: Representative works / projects
hierarchical_section_title: Setsu & Shinobu Ito / Representative works / projects
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: REGGIANI FORUM 1
context_page_description: Setsu and Shinobu Ito are both Japanese designers who comprehensively designs a wide range of products from architecture, interior and space, product and packaging design. A design unit based in Milan and Tokyo since 1997. Under the theme of material characteristics and design, they have worked on a wide variety of projects, from large spaces to small product, from handmade traditional methods to high-tech electronic devices. Their works have been presented all over the world and they have won many international design awards. Their works are stored as permanent collections in the Modern Art Museums in Munich and Milan.
  Fellow of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo Visiting Researcher, Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, Contracted Professor at the Faculty of Design, Polytechnic University of Milan.
context_section_description: HOW -Stationery Collection (Nava_Italy) 2000 - 2006
  A series of functional desktop and stationery with a light and deep feeling in line with the shift to home offices in the IT era. Manufactured and launched by Nava, an Italian design stationery brand. High-thickness and variable-thickness molded products using hand-finished molds and special molding technology. We challenged to give ecological product value that can be used habitually by giving a high-class feeling even to plastic molded products. Some of the products are permanent collection of Triennale Milano Design Museum.
  Good Design Award (2001, Japan)
  LOVE Collection Espresso Coffee Cup, Tableware Series (Fratelli Guzzini_Italy) 2001-
  Coffee cup and tableware series make breakfast enjoyable. The series expresses the newness of the combination of different materials, ceramic and plastic. It announced the theme of LOVE & PEACE for the world after The September 11 attacks 2001 in the United States. It is now sold worldwide as a long seller collection.
  SOIGNE INTERNATIONAL Cosmetic Packaging Design (Sony CP Laboratories - Present: B & C Laboratories_Japan) 2002
  It is a package with a simple shape, the flow of the shape that surrounds diagonally like Saturn's ring gives rhythm to time and space. It creates a variety of facial expressions with slight differences in the way the user uses each time and creates a light rhythm in life. Packaging design creates a feeling of ceremony during makeup time everyday and every hours.
  AGEDISCUSS Cosmetic Packaging Design (Sony CP Laboratories - Present: B & C Laboratories_Japan) 2003
  A red glowing sphere that expresses gravity and energy emerges in a shape that combines the two elements of tension and softness. A packaging design represents the theme of anti-aging cosmetics.
  AU Combined Unformal Sofa (Edra_Italy) 2003
  The name “AU” in Japanese means “Meeting” and “Fusing”. The sofa combines two organic shapes into one. An interactive object that reflects the relationship between people sitting together, the emotions of people at that time and the atmosphere of the place and the sofa changes its shape and expression directly. Its shape represents a spirally rising force and at the same time it is ergonomic and organic. It expresses the “quietness in motion”, which is composed of dynamic movements and at organized in an orderly line. The two unique elements can be combined in various ways to give rhythm and sense of life.
  TOKI TABLE Side Table (Fiam Italia_Italy) 2003
  Announced by a long-selling company by Fiam, known worldwide for furniture made by two-dimensional glass bending. Aiming at the beauty of the shape formed by bending the direction of a single glass plate, a shape that appears to be a three-dimensional surface at first sight but it is actually created with a configuration of different two-dimensional surface. Combined with a bed or sofa, it functions as a transparent side table and coffee table.
  E-Dictionary Series (PW-9910, PW-A8300, PW-C8000) Electronic Dictionary (Sharp_Japan) 2004-2008
  The electronic dictionary series express the feeling of keeping the world's knowledge and carrying it wherever and whenever thanks to the shape. It expresses the metaphor of the swelling of the brain, intelligence and the projection of information and expresses thinness by connecting the faces.
  ISOLA_S Movable Island Kitchen Unit (Toyo Kitchen & Living_Japan) 2004
  An all-stainless steel island kitchen system consisting of two elements: Isola Cook for cooking and Isola Bar for drinks. It is placed in the center of the living room and you can freely change the distance and direction of the elements according to the number of parties, the relationship, the purpose and the space. It is an object that promotes communication between people and creates a place like the ancient people who surrounded the fire and is always the center of the energy of the space.
  SHIKI Partition Panel (De Padova_Italy) 2004
  Partition panel made from a folded aluminium sheet that has been worked like Origami paper. The beauty of this design that stands up elegantl
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