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Issue 61 - Vintage Modern Issue

Issue 61

Vintage Modern Issue

The breadth and scope of Habitus has always been extraordinary. With how we live at heart of every issue, we have stepped it up with Guest Editor David Flack of Flack Studio shaking the ‘how’ and looking at new ways to make a house a home. With Vintage Modern as the issues theme, we look at the way iconic design has stayed with us, how daring pieces from the past can add the wow factor and how architecture and good design defy the pigeon hole of their era.

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Step Step, a stool with a shoehorn, is now available outside Japan for the first time, exclusively at atomi in Singapore. 


Designed By: Kawakami

Made By: Nissin, Japan

My Category: Furniture

I am: A stool with a shoehorn.

Award-winning Japanese designer Kawakami has always preferred smart-looking lace-up shoes over loose-fitting slip-ons. For this reason, whenever he heads out, he first sits down and uses a shoehorn to put on his shoes. It was while doing this that he had a light bulb moment: to merge a shoehorn into the structure of a chair! Step Step was the result. Best of all, Step Step is a breeze to assemble using the traditional wooden screw system, which means there is not need for tools.

Kawakami designed Step Step for Japanese brand Nissin, which is based in Gifu’s northern city of Hida, an area known for its production of simple, modern furniture, crafted using traditional, sophisticated techniques handed down through the generations.

Nissin’s furniture pieces are comfortable, light, sturdy and designed to last. Importantly, the company believes strongly in sustainability and environmental conservation. They plant their own trees and place strict controls on the timber.

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Issue 61 - Vintage Modern Issue

Issue 61

Vintage Modern Issue

The breadth and scope of Habitus has always been extraordinary. With how we live at heart of every issue, we have stepped it up with Guest Editor David Flack of Flack Studio shaking the ‘how’ and looking at new ways to make a house a home. With Vintage Modern as the issues theme, we look at the way iconic design has stayed with us, how daring pieces from the past can add the wow factor and how architecture and good design defy the pigeon hole of their era.

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