Index Code:

ART-RAS-KEN

Orgin:

Japan

Field Notes:

Wood and cane chairs articulate joints spans and support as visible modern craft

Defining Moment:

The bent plywood and woven designs where proportion and lightness show structure as the main ornament

Junzo Kenmochi

(

1912–1992

)

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Kenmochi built a world where Japanese craft met modern industry — timber, joinery, and proportion refined into lucid everyday form.

His furniture treats restraint as structure.

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Line, frame, or interval organizes space instead of filling it. Structure is articulated through placement rather than mass.

In Junzo Kenmochi’s work, this approach appears where proportion and regional material logic structure form.

Position

Space as Drawing

Line, frame, or interval organizes space instead of filling it. Structure is articulated through placement rather than mass.

In Junzo Kenmochi’s work, this approach appears where proportion and regional material logic structure form.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Design

Function, system, and material are resolved through purposeful form.

Japanese Modernism

Modern form is shaped by tradition, craft, and spatial discipline.

Organic Architecture

Form grows from site, material, and human use.

Junzo Kenmochi

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Position

Space as Drawing

Observartory

In Dialogue

Junzo Kenmochi

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Position

Space as Drawing

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue