Tsujita LA Ceiling Installation by Takeshi Sano
Japanese designer Takeshi Sano has created a ceiling design, using thousands of wooden sticks, in the Tsujita restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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Description from the designer:
I put image of clouds for the ceiling detail. There is IZUMO shrine, one of the most important shrine in Shimane Japan. The clouds we can see there, has beauty but mysterious image. I wanted to show those images on this design. I put 25000 of wooden sticks, which was shaped like drum stick on the ceiling.
In order to increase a reality of clouds, I calculate the focal length between eye line and wooden sticks and use that length for the stick length. Also I made difference on the distance between stick each other so that to make a stereoscopic effect to wooden cloud. Not only for this project. I’m always challenging to create a space that coexist art and interior. At the same time, I’d like people to feel the delicate of beauty, which Japanese have, and Japanese atmosphere when they visit here so that they will think that they want to visit Japan. I’d like to make this restaurant as one of an element for Japanese reconstruction.
Visit Takeshi Sano’s website – here.
Photography by Nacasa & Partners
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loft on 12 Jul 2011 at 6:12 am #
Oh – a height field map pulled out of the computer and built in the real world.
A nice way to pull that off.
Good one.
annie on 12 Jul 2011 at 12:29 pm #
lewis tsurumaki lewis. six years ago.
shane on 12 Jul 2011 at 5:40 pm #
too many textures
ARTKRYLA design group on 12 Jul 2011 at 10:01 pm #
I love this detailed pixel clouds! Very beautiful. And all of these textures are interesting.
Nawaf on 12 Jul 2011 at 11:45 pm #
The ceiling looks good but i wouldn’t feel comfortable sitting under a roof full of hanging wooden sticks.
zach on 13 Jul 2011 at 7:45 am #
what a blatant copy of LTL’s Tides. The main difference is that that firm did it by hand and didn’t need the software. If you are going to copy another firm’s work because you have bills to pay and need to eat that is one thing but don’t take the time to write a back story and pretend to have process behind the work. It really makes you look small. Very small.
chuck on 13 Jul 2011 at 9:51 am #
LTL did this years ago, only better.
Dan on 13 Jul 2011 at 2:15 pm #
@Annie – first thing I thought of also. This is a total rip off. LTL done Tides Restaurant in NYC. Done with bamboo skewers.
http://www.ltlwork.net/website/pdfs/tides.pdf
Joe on 13 Jul 2011 at 10:24 pm #
The comments above are far too smug about ‘rip offs’, this is borrowing and adaptation. LTL are probably proud to see their idea being developed elsewhere.
The original idea has been evolved by sophisticated visual algorithms, and that extra level of design clearly shows in the outcome. This an evocative and sophisticated interior. It clearly builds on previous work by others, like much good design.
Congratulations on a beautiful project, Takeshi Sano.
AMY REED on 14 Jul 2011 at 9:37 pm #
Who cares ! If someone think this imagination is copy from the other, the other already referred to the another imagination,it like this.
Anyway I’d like to visit this restaurant! Congratulations!!
Suz on 14 Jul 2011 at 10:31 pm #
LTL was not the first to do something like this.
Justin Sculthorpe on 17 Jul 2011 at 9:12 am #
I first thought of LTL when I first saw this, too; however (the more I look at it) this firm is doing something different. LTL’s ceiling at Dunes was about creating a terrain in the ceiling. To me, this project is about creating isolated figures in a field… kind of like that kid’s toy with the steel pins that you push your hand on to create a 3D topographic image.
This being said, the designers had to know people would make the connection. Dunes was published EVERYWHERE. If they were hoping to avoid the LTL association, the use of bamboo skewers was/is a really poor material selection.
mydeco on 18 Jul 2011 at 2:33 am #
The celing looks fantastic! The interior is simple and a not a lot of colour is used which is great and avoid’s the ceiling being overlooked!