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Designer
Tatsuo Kuroda
Tatsuo Kuroda was born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1983 and is a product designer based in Tokyo, according to his studio's website. He graduated from the environmental design department of Tama Art University in Tokyo and finished a master's…
Biography
Background
Tatsuo Kuroda was born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1983 and is a product designer based in Tokyo, according to his studio's website. He graduated from the environmental design department of Tama Art University in Tokyo and finished a master's degree at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009. Normann Copenhagen's designer page adds that he has had his own studio since 2010.
Signature Style
His own words on the Normann Copenhagen designer page are "For me it is all about shape, touch and use. I believe that fine products will be loved longer and that way becomes sustainable in the end." The studio site describes his work as centred on furniture within product design. For the Knot chair he describes a reinterpretation of a chair that is both classic and modern, inspired by Danish design classics in which function and aesthetics come together.
Notable Works
His Knot Chair for Normann Copenhagen ties its structural components together with paper cord. The company's fact sheet gives 2012 as its year of design.
Legacy
The Normann Copenhagen press release says he has worked with product and furniture design since 2006, and describes the Knot chair as combining classic materials with a modern Scandinavian look.
