Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07.
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01:37 We are not really thinking the house with every detail.
01:43 So sometimes we create certain spaces by wall.
01:50 So in my initial idea, I thought it's quite important thing to make a wall itself
01:59 that's creating and dividing the one square space
02:02 and then put many of my design furniture and objects around.
02:07 So that's the idea, but that's too simple.
02:11 That's why one big idea is just using 8 meters tall wall.
02:17 The very interesting point I want to have is when people visit here,
02:24 people really feel normal and comfortable.
02:29 And they ask the question themselves, "Why it's normal but it's nice?"
02:35 But that's not really easy to get the answer.
02:39 So that makes them have nice confusion.
02:43 I think that's quite an interesting part of that.
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03:56 So the ideal house for me has a degree of openness and permeability.
04:01 It's permeable, it's open, you can move from one space to the other in an easy way.
04:07 In every space you feel slightly different, they're not all the same.
04:11 You're not always sitting against a wall.
04:15 You can place your furniture in different ways.
04:18 So that's the idea for me of an ideal house at this moment in time.
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04:27 Well, because for example, if I take the table there,
04:29 the idea that in this particular case,
04:33 most people when they have a table, their legs hit the pole here, pole there.
04:39 It has ends here.
04:41 The idea was to move away from the idea of you can't leave the table,
04:45 so you have more legroom, you sit in a different way.
04:50 You don't have to always sit in a regimented way.
04:56 But fundamentally it's also about the way you use the table.
05:00 So that you have more space and stuff like that.
05:05 I think the perfect thing is for something to be really interesting to look at,
05:11 works within the environment, and also works as a functional piece.
05:17 And to combine that with materiality so there's a perfect material for a perfect idea.
05:25 And I think that people are getting close to that
05:29 because the materials have become so varied and diverse
05:32 that actually you can optimize these things.
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