Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb & Kwangho Lee

In collaboration with furniture designer and artist Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee, Tajimi Custom Tiles is a new brand of custom-tailored tiles and furnitures from Japan.

Tajimi City is the center of the Japanese tile industry, with a centuries-old tradition of craftsmanship and excellence. Tajimi Custom Tiles creates custom-tailored tiles in any size, shape, color or texture, using a range of unique production, glazing and firing methods.

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

In ‘Working Title‘, Max Lamb showcases what makes Tajimi a unique manufacturing location and what TCT hopes to achieve. He designed a set of modular, 3-dimensional tiles that can create countless shapes, with the resulting objects performing as vases, sofas, tables, benches or partition walls. He used typical clays with characteristic earthy attributes, and special glazes with ambiguous colors harkening to classic Japanese with tiles. His production method is pressure moulding which allows highly-precise 3-dimensional shapes and patterns.

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

‘Tide’ by Kwanghoh Lee was inspired by one of the typical production methods in Tajimi – the clay extrusion. He created a module with a section in the form of a looped line, that can be extruded to different lengths in order to assume different functions.

Tajimi Custom Tiles Furniture by Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee

The modules can be stacked horizontally or vertically to form various basic objects, like walls or benches. When the modules are aligned, the repeated loop has an almost hand-drawn quality, creating patterns reminiscent of knitted fabric.“ Knitting” has been an important theme in Kwangho’s work, and he has explored it often in different materials and on diverse scales.

In his work with tiles, Kwangho’s knitting theme creates references to the varying states of clay, from initially soft and malleable to ultimately hard and fixed.

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