Takt Project

'as it is. -equilibrium flower-' will be unveiled by TAKT PROJECT during Milan Design Week 2022. This new installation will be presented at the Church of San Bernardino alle Monache, located in the 5VIE district.

This is the sixth time in three years that TAKT PROJECT has participated in Milan Design Week, following the solo exhibition at Ventura Central in 2019, and the installation exhibitions at the Triennale Art Museum for Grand Seiko in 2018 and for AISIN CORPORATION in 2017.

The world is where everything coexists—where everything can be as it is, or as it wants to be.

No single power dominates others, no one is superior. Rather, things balance in a harmonic state of equilibrium.

If design is to be about creating something, through that something we also want to realize such harmony of equilibrium.

We fill the church with soft knit fabric objects standing on their own, just barely balanced. For the artwork, we use a self-developed knitted fabric that hardens when heated. By heating it partially, structural rigidity and the soft texture characteristic of textiles can coexist as they are. The balance between the cloth trying to outspread and the hardened supporting structure somehow evokes the vitality of a bud that is on the verge of flowering in the harmonic state of equilibrium with the outside world.

The installation is an attempt to spread countless manmade objects in the church, like a Japanese flower arrangement 'ikebana' that finds balance with the atmosphere and gives a harmonious feel to it.