SOTANAKA

SOTANAKA is a Tokyo design studio established in 2020 by Soichiro Tanaka, who approaches each project as a journey of exploration rather than a brief to solve. Furniture, lighting and objects are treated as independent platforms for dialogue, with materials, forms and manufacturing processes chosen as a vocabulary that is decoded and rebuilt each time.

Uneri, presented at 3daysofdesign 2026, shows the method: branches between three and five centimetres in diameter are collected, their curves studied, then reused as the structure of furniture. Earlier work includes the ORI console for Roche Bobois, which won the Roche Bobois Award in 2019, the MO Lamp for Pedal and Senza, and Memento, which took a Merit and an Audience Award at the Kokuyo Design Award 2024; Tanaka was a Designart Tokyo Under 30 winner in 2021 and 2023.