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The International Furniture Design Competition
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Starts accepting applications

International Furniture Design Fair Asahikawa（IFDA)

The IFDA (International Furniture Design Fair Asahikawa) has been held every three years since 1990. It is considered an important occasion for furniture makers in Asahikawa to exchange ideas with designers from Japan as well as from other parts of the world.

The International Furniture Design Competition, the main event of the Fair, serves as an indicator of the future of wooden-furniture designs. In addition, it is the focus of public attention because of its competition in cutting-edge designs.

Representation at this competition is not only for the purpose of being awarded prizes, but also to introduce a fresh current of designs into the Asahikawa furniture industry. Moreover, some of the works of the winners and finalists of past competitions have been commercialized by furniture makers. We are determined to make the utmost effort to commercialize more works of winners and finalists of the competition.

Since Asahikawa is a trading center of high quality lumber, we seek designs which make superb use of it.

They hope that they can produce furniture in Asahikawa that will be treasured for a long time by both users and makers alike. They are looking forward to seeing your wonderful designs which will enable them to realize our dream.

• Jury
• Chief judge
• Motomi Kawakami, designer, Japan
• Judges
• Naoto Fukasawa, designer, Japan
  Noritsugu Oda, professor at Hokkaido Tokai University, Japan
  Peter Maly, designer, Germany
  Gunilla Allard, designer, Sweden
  Yeoh-Hang Yoon, designer and university professor, Korea
  Minoru Nagahara, chairman of the IFDA Organizing Committee, Japan

• Awards
• Gold Leaf 1　　　 3,000,000yen
  Silver Leaf 2 　　 1,000,000yen each
  Bronze Leaf 5　 300,000yen each
  Note: tax is included in the awards.

• Deadline
• All Internet entries will be accepted until midnight Japan Time (GMT+9:00) on Friday, December 7, 2007.
  All entries by post will be accepted until the end of our business hours on Friday, December 7, 2007.

• Inquiries
• Inquiries about the application and others should be made to:
  International Furniture Design Fair Asahikawa
  Organizing Committee
  Asahikawa Furniture Industry Cooperative Office
  2-10, Nagayama, Asahikawa, Hokkaido,
  079-8412 Japan
• http://www.asahikawa-kagu.or.jp/ifda/

(2007/06/21)