‘Origata’ bench, by Nao Tamura, for Porro is among our Salone del Mobile 2024 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale 11 April ...

New York-based Japanese designer Nao Tamura looked to the craft of kimono making to inform the Origata bench and console, created for Italian furniture brand Porro.

Learning the art of giving, Japanese-style. That’s what Origata is all about. WHAT matters at Christmas time is the spirit, right? For those yet to be convinced, a tiny Japanese pavilion in ...

Italian furniture brand Porro showcases its new Origata collection by Nao Tamura during London Design Festival 2024 from 14 to 22 September.

Chief among these customs is the Origata gift ritual, rooted in traditional Shinto culture, which has been practised primarily for the Japanese imperial family since the 14 th century.

In this picture taken on October 30, 2012 Japanese Soke Ogasawara (L) attends a ceremony of Origata, Japan’s art of gift wrapping during the opening of the “Miwa” pavillon in Paris. What ...

Presented during Salone del Mobile 2024, her ‘Origata’ bench, although monolithic in appearance, is inspired by the process of making kimonos (a craft close to home for Tamura, whose grandmother ...