ITOKI CORPORATION
Itoki supports the creation of diverse human environments, in offices, public spaces, specialized spaces and living spaces. We develop products and services that add excitement to the solution of our customers' needs, creating objects of solid value.
As our corporate responsibility to society, we aim to do our utmost to build a sustainable society and earn the trust of the world.
In creating our products, we pursue human technology that delivers highquality products, contributing to people and to society.
By finding superior ideas that imbue our designs with new appeal, and beating the competition to produce new products, our product development creates high-value goods that are one step ahead of the times. We are striving to become a corporate of universally recognized value.
Our aim is to become a global business with a superior international esthetic, by exhibiting at global events, expanding sales in Europe, North America and Asia, collaborating in product development with world-class designers, and importing and distributing foreign brand goods.
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SPINA
In conventional office chair design, depth of seating and posture when sitting upright or leaning back are taken for granted.
But after studying people's seated posture, this company determined that only about one in three people sits in the ideal position, with their lower back firmly supported. Their solution lies in the unprecedented mechanisms of this chair, which move the seat down and back, while moving the lumbar support forward. The manufacturer calls these mechanisms the passive slide seat, or PSS, and active lumbar support, or ALS. For a seat back material that flexes in response to these motions, the developers chose elastomer resin, with properties halfway between plastic and rubber.
Because one's back is next to a mesh instead of a solid surface, users stay dry and comfortable even after sitting for extended periods.
In appearance, the chair reflects Japanese aesthetics. Vertical stripes down the back of the chair, revealing what's behind it, are reminiscent of a lattice or Japanese shoji screen with rays of sunlight shining through.
DESIGNER: BOW DESIGN LTD., PRESIDENT, YASUHIRO NAKAMURA