Knit!

Bumpy Basket

Shigeki Fujishiro

Bumpy Basket

Constructed from textiles structured around a three-dimensional grid of ropes, Bumpy Basket is a series of containers whose uneven, undulating design helps the user appreciate and understand the material qualities of knitted textiles.

Bumpy Basket was designed by Shigeki Fujishiro, a Tokyo-based designer whose work spans interior products to exhibition installations.

For Knit!, Fujishiro became interested in the stretch inherent within knitted textiles. Using Kvadrat Febrik’s Uniform Melange, Sprinkles and Apparel lines, the designer chose to focus on the creation of beautiful curves, which would be complemented by pared- back, abstract patterns.

To emphasise the qualities of his chosen textiles, Fujishiro shaped them around a pinched rope lattice that provides each basket with a soft, regular structure. As such, Bumpy Basket is a simple product with an architecture that nods to its knitted components.

An important element for me when designing is harmony.

- Shigeki Fujishiro

Shigeki Fujishiro

Shigeki Fujishiro is a designer who sets out to create work that is elementary and universally appealing. He left Idée Co, Ltd in 2005 to found Shigeki Fujishiro Design and, alongside producing self-initiated projects, he has collaborated with brands such as Hermès, Nikon and Adidas. In addition, Fujishiro was one of 16 designers who participated in 2016/, an international project commemorating the 400th anniversary of Arita ware.