Ono, an inhabitant of Mino (says an ancient Japanese legend of A.D. 545), spent the seasons longing for his ideal of female beauty. He met her one evening on a vast moor and married her. Simultaneously with the birth of their son, Ono's dog was delivered of a pup which as it grew up became more and more hostile to the lady of the moors. She begged her husband to kill it, but he refused. At last one day the dog attacked her so furiously that she lost courage, resumed vulpine shape, leaped over a fence and fled. "You may be a fox," Ono called after her, "but you are the mother of my son and I will always love you. Come back when you please; you will always be welcome."

So every evening she stole back and slept in his arms.

KitSü is a piece of art furniture that allows you to reconnect with yourself, but also with others. I wanted to create a piece of furniture that is both a separator and a unifier, capable of bringing different people together in the same space. In other words: a space within a space.

Inspired by the Kitsune, a fox spirit with polymorphism, and many other powers, I wanted to create an object in the image of an ancestral love story between a human and a spirit. The KitSü desk screen is my interpretation of this story.

Shaped like an egg, it features a fan-shaped desk adorned with brass leaves, straw inlay and white oak to highlight the workspace. A solid white oak structure has a hexagonal pillar in the center on which are fixed 3 curved wooden panels. Among these 3 sides, one is composed of circular mirrors backed with white oak and inlaid with blue and black straw in reference to the Kitsune fire. It has the particularity of being able to be fixed on different sides of the central pillar with screws, to change the shape of the object. The other two fixed sides, also serving as a foot of the desk, are simply empty: They make the link between the office space and the rest of the composition.

The overall shape of the object is that of a cocoon, while leaving it open to the world around it. Its possibilities of arrangement are multiple and thus leave room for the creativity of each.

KITSÜ - Screen Desk, Yokaï serie.

• Year : 2021.

• Materials : Rye straw, solid brass, steel, white oak, gold leaf, glass mirror.

• Technique : Wood bending, straw marquetry, wood marquetry, gold leaf.

• Dimensions : 177x138x138 cm.

*UNIQUE PIECE.

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