Funky furniture fair opens up for competition entries
Published on: 19-Jun-2007
An internationally-acclaimed funky furniture fair has opened up to a new set of entrants for its prestigious furniture design competition.The International Furniture Design Fair Asahikawa has been held in the northern Japanese city every three years since 1990, quickly gaining a reputation as being home to the world's most fashionable and funky furniture designs and designers of the future, with a particular focus on wood-based works.
Entry into the 2008 show's furniture design competition has now officially opened with a team of international interior experts, headed by renowned Japanese designer Motomi Kawakami, ready for the process of whittling down the hundreds of cool and classy designs to find one worthy winner.
Announcing the opening of the new competition, the fair's organising committee commented: "We think that furniture is essential in our daily lives. At the same time, it represents lifestyles. Thus, we believe, furniture should be well-designed and equipped to deal with the new needs of consumers.
"We also think that seen as a universal design, designs must keep up with the changing society and environment and should express new relationships between human beings and their lives, between human beings and furniture as well as between human beings and the environment."
On top of the acclaim of showing at the June 2008 fair itself, the fair's funky furniture first-place winner will also receive a handsome cash prize of Y3,000,000 (£12,225), with two further runners-up set to earn some £4,000.
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