Prizewinners of the 4th Nitori One-House Total Coordination Competition 2009

Nitori would like to thank the many individuals who submitted an entry for Nitori’s Design Competition 2009.
We are pleased to announce the following prizewinners, who were selected by the judges based on the screening standards and contest goals set by Nitori.
The winning designs were judged in accordance with the screening standards and selected from among the total of 395 entries.

The prizewinners

Gold Prize
(1 person)
Prize money:1,000,000 yen

Fabric Category
Tomoki Iyama (Toyama)

No designs satisfied the requirements for the Gold Prize in the Furniture Category

Silver Prize
(5 people)
Prize money:500,000 yen

Because all five entries were judged to be qualified, the number of winners was increased from the planned four to five.

Furniture Category
Shunpei Koshigoe (Tokyo)
Masahiro Minami (Shiga)

Fabric Category
Shoko Ishimaru (Tokyo)
Yoshiki Yamasaki (Toyama)

Interior Accessories Category
Reiko Kobayashi (Tokyo)

Bronze Prize
(10 people)
Prize money:100,000 yen

Furniture Category
Michihiro Kamei (Tokyo)
Jun Takagi (Aichi)
Kazuya Nunome  (Miyagi)

Fabric Category
Akihiro Uemura (Fukuoka)
Chiharu Sato ( U.S.A. )
Yoshie Furuhashi (Tokyo)

Interior Accessories Category
Shinya Fujii (Saitama)
Takahiro Tanaka (Kanagawa)
Toshihiro Oyama (Tokyo)
Takashi Miyata (Osaka)

Honorable Mention
(29 people)
Prize money:20,000 yen

There was an especially large number of honorable mentions for this year’s competition because of the many excellent works submitted.

Furniture Category
Saori Inoue (Okayama)
Yoji Kuroki (Aichi)
Hiroshi Koga (Tokyo)
Takeshi Shichijo (Osaka)
Yusuke Takada (Yamagata)
Masato Nakao & Seiki Ishii (Osaka)
Manami Nakashima (Hyogo)
Nobuhiko Nishiguchi (Nara)
Yasushi Matsumoto (Niigata)
Ryoji Murai (Fukuoka)

Fabric Category
Mayako Odaka (Tokyo)
Nanako Katayama (Kyoto)
Nami Kihara-Kotowska (Tokyo)
Hisako Kurose (Hokkaido)
Kyoko Sugimoto (Aichi)
Machiko Taki (Saitama)
Ko Nagano (Fukuoka)
Shinsuke Haramaki (Fukuoka)
Kazusa Morita (Osaka)

Interior Accessories Category
Emiko Aoki (Chiba)
Tomoko Ikeda (Yamagata)
Makiko Ito (Tokyo)
Saori Obuchi (Fukuoka)
Katsuyoshi Kina (Okinawa)
Kim Seung-min (Tokyo)
Hajime Koizumi (Chiba)
Wataru Nakano (Tokyo)
Tetsuro Hakamada (Tokyo)
Goro Fujinaga (Osaka)

Note: Nitori will contact the prize winners directly.

Inquiries about the Design Competition

Masahiro Fukuda
Nitori Co., Ltd.
6-20, Kamiya 3-chome, Kita-ku, Tokyo, 115-0043
E-mail:design_shohin@nitori.jp
Please note that in some cases, we may not be able to answer your inquiries, if they are not related to the design competition.

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