SHOTA SHIMODE STUDIO
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Retrace

2026

Stool

R&D

MDW 2026 / 5VIE

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While most furniture decomposes wood into structural members, this work reconsiders wood as a single mass of accumulated time. The process by which river stones lose their edges over long years is overlaid onto timber — the annual rings that appear along the carved curves become an experience of haptically retracing (Retrace) the time inscribed within the material.

Carving is not an operation to give form, but an act of attending to what remains as a result of being carved.

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