2025 Graduation Project 'FAIR' by Hinako Mase — IDREIT®

Theme

This is a work of “more than air and less than furniture, more than partitions and less than shelf” that spreads happiness in a space.

The title “fair” is derived from the concept of the work, furniture and air.

The strange appearance of the softness of the organdie cloth, which should not stand on its own because of its softness, and the softness and irregular shape characteristic of the cloth, create an appearance as if it exists in the space but does not make you feel it.

I think that by placing small plants I picked up on the way home, flowers I picked, or my favorite things on the table, the objects I placed there will catch my eye at a moment's notice, and memories will come back to me, spreading happiness in the space and making it drift away.

Production Process

When only one piece of organdie fabric is used, it appears to be transparent, but when two pieces are layered, the weaves shift and overlap, creating a pattern called moiré, which resembles waves or wood grain.

When experimenting with the number of layers of organdie for strength, moiré occurred when two layers were layered, and the transparency of the cloth was close to the ideal, so the cloth was double layered.

In order to trap and fix the moiré pattern, the two pieces of organdie are laminated together by spreading a thin layer of polyvinyl alcohol (laundry starch) using a squeegee, which looks like a spatula, and allowing it to dry. In this way, a crisp, thin, board-like fabric material was created that has the transparency of organdie, but at the same time reveals a moiré pattern.

It is then cut out in squares at equal intervals, and folded into an uneven grid by making mountain and valley folds. This grid was created by gluing cloth the same width as the depth of the grid through a horizontal weave as reinforcement. Basically, the grid is made from one large piece of cloth, and the resulting grid has the same expression on both the front and back sides. The grid is made of a cloth material he created himself, and the base is made of softwood plywood with a grain similar to that of moiré, painted with sumi ink.