Designer Satoshi Itasaka has redesigned his grandmother's antique chair with the help of new material. Though, it was an attractive chair with a beautiful silhouette, he says. Satoshi Itasaka saw that it was clear that the chair was becoming too old and nonfunctional as one leg was broken and the backrest is so damaged that it showed a tragic appearance.

However, the chair's facade was still attractive. "I tried to repair the chair in order to manage reusing it."

"I believe that it's sad to repair something old by changing it into something new, erasing all old elements of it, as if the memories that built up over many years, are reset. In addition, it is also saddening to make new parts look old by using aging skills because it's as if the memories it has are being forcefully written over."

"Even if things are old and damaged, all events which happened to them in the past make up the item's history and memory. I tried to use such an idea in my design. I repaired the lost leg and the backrest of the chair by using clear resins, imagining the original shape. Clear resins used are nothing but vague visually. In my work, I took the experience of the chair; it had lost something, a design element, while keeping lost things visually."

"These days we are having misgivings about exhaustion of resources and try to take various measures. However, I wonder if we will repeat excessive consumptions if users do not have the attachment to things. ”Grandmother's chair” is a new trial that expresses the attachment to something by respecting the memories that it withholds."

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