TYP / MORPHO

“By all rights, the bags, wallet and card cases you use every day are just containers for carrying around things in.
We believe that what is important in long-term use is flexible functionality: For this collection,
we have created various “receptacles”, whose design is not based on the typically fashion related categories of “man”,“woman,” “business” or “casual”
but rather simply on the size one requires and the colour one likes”
“TYP” is a collection of leather goods created under the creative direction of TERUHIRO YANAGIHARA/ for the Tokyo based leather manufacturer ‘Morpho’.
All items are made by hand in downtown Tokyo, using a particular ecological cowhide of extraordinary thinness and superior quality.
The brand concept evolved around the theme of paper and stationary.
The dimensions of the products correspond to international ISO standard paper sizes (C4, A4, A5, A6, A7, B6, B5), an open format that is not determined by its content,
but should allow free, imaginative usage. In order to keep the design as thin and simple as possible there is a special closing mechanism that works only through folding, without the use of a zipper or button.
The collection consists of three lines: The sheet series, the file series and the paperbag series. The minimal sheet series is kept as thin as possible, like a folded sheet of paper,
and slides easily in every pocket. The file series comes in the same sizes, but features compartments like the pockets of a file and offers abundant space.
Both series have a leather outside and canvas lining.
The paperbag series are versatile containers to store and carry this and that and comes in leather without lining.

Japan
・伊勢丹新宿メンズ館 8F メンズレジデンス TOKYO
・/SHOP

Overseas
・和枝 WAZA NEW YORK USA

On-line
http://www.noi-japan.com/

Teruhiro Yanagihara (1976, Japan) graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 1999 and decisively established his own company in 2002 to develop an own, identifiable vision on design.
Ever since, he has been contributing “borderless” designs for national and international clients. His projects cross boundaries and cultures to form encounters between contemporary design,
industries and Japanese crafts. In his new studio in Kyoto, he initiated the scheme TERUHIRO YANAGIHARA/bespoke, a label for exclusive, ‘bespoke’ projects, created with the finest Japanese artisans and manufacturers,
that targets international collectors and galleries. Since 2002,Yanagihara has been active in many design fields.
He is a product designer for clients such as OFFECT(Sweden), PALLUCCO (Italy), Wallpaper* (UK) and Kimura Glass (Japan), and an interior designer for Sergio Rossi (Italy) and Less Is More (LIM) Group in Japan, among others.
He is a creative director branding the furniture brand KARIMOKU NEW STANDARD (Japan), and in 2012 the ceramics brand 1616/ Arita Japan.
His works has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in Japan and Europe and he is the founding member of the yearly design symposium Designeast in Osaka.

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