ORIGATA PORRO
What if furniture were made the way a kimono is—with nothing wasted?
The kimono is built from flat, rectangular cloth—cut in straight lines, assembled with minimal waste. Nothing is forced into shape. Everything follows the logic of the material.
I wanted to apply the same thinking to metal. Cut, fold, assemble with a few screws. What remains is the form that the material itself suggests—material, geometry, and color doing the work that ornament usually pretends to do.
The seat is 38 centimeters deep—one shaku in the kujira-jaku scale, the traditional measure for kimono fabric. It wasn’t planned. But perhaps that’s the point.
ORIGATA, DESIGN NAO TAMURA
From Japan to New York, balancing memory and innovation, archaic forms and contemporaneity. Porro’s path crosses the light step of Nao Tamura, for the new Origata bench inspired by Japanese culture.
Monolithic in appearance, Origata is inspired by the making of kimonos, the traditional Japanese garments, where the flat and rectangular fabric is cut in straight lines and then sewn together with little to no waste: a principle taken up in the creation of the bench, made from a sheet of aluminum cut and assembled through screws, >>
>>maximizing the use of the material. A minimalist geometry and a pop object, a brutalist architecture softened by a soft cushion, Origata is a three-dimensional asculpture and a visual game in the name of symmetry, balance and the expressive power of colour. A project that narrates the values shared by the designer and the brand: cultural identity, internationality and propensity for the future. True combination of simple gestures and aesthetic simplification, it offers a new point of view on the Porro house.
ORIGATA received an Honourable Mention at the Compasso d’Oro and entered the Compasso d’Oro Historical Collection at the ADI Design Museum, Milan—a collection recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of Italy’s national heritage.
