SALONE NEWS 2007 in Milan vol.4
One sheet

‘One sheet of cloth’ is a work of Issey Miyake, the idea of which is to make things from a sheet of cloth. Let’s take a look at several examples. The concept of a ‘sheet’ is, needless to say, essential to furniture.
Furniture works as furniture as far as they have flat surfaces to hold things. Even if it floats in the air like a magic flying carpet, it works as far as it has flat surfaces for supporting our buttocks and backs, holding coffee cups, books, lights, etc.
No matter how light and thin they may be, walls can be made of a sheet if they work as an insulating partition. Or rather, the whole house can be made of a sheet. The origin of nomads’ houses was tents made, of course, of sheets of cloth.
In short, what we call furniture and architecture is something that holds people, holds things, holds divided spaces etc. Clothes can also made of one sheet of cloth, which should make their wearers look discreet and beautiful.
The sofa introduced by Moroso is like ‘Juni-hitoe’, a traditional Japanese kimono made up of several layers of colorful cloths. The plastic chair and the table are also made of sheets of cloth with holes on them.