KARIYA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toyota Boshoku Corporation (TOKYO: 3116) (President: Shuhei Toyoda) will exhibit at the 54th annual international furniture trade fair Milano Salone*1, which will be held in Milan, Italy from Tuesday, April 14 to Sunday, April 19, 2015. Toyota Boshoku offers new lifestyle possibilities and attractive design from its design studio in Milan, the Toyota Boshoku Milan Design Branch.
This year marks Toyota Boshoku's fourth showing at the exhibition, which borrows last year's theme of "Carsa," a play on words blending "Car" and "Casa"*2. At the exhibition, Toyota Boshoku will present a fusion of automotive interiors with traditional Japanese culture. One of the items on exhibit will be an "OTEDAMA Seat," which is a beanbag-style seat that utilizes automotive fabric. When guests wear 3D glasses in the exhibit’s Japanese-style room - complete with tatami mats and shoji sliding paper screen doors - they can become a part of the virtual experience as the room transforms into a car interior before their eyes.
EXPO Milano will also be underway in Milan city during the exhibition, held between Friday, May 1 and Saturday, October 31, 2015.
The Toyota Boshoku Milan Design Branch will continue to draw on insight gained through interaction with a diverse range of individuals to offer fascinating moving spaces that delight customers throughout the world.
1. Major exhibits
(1) OTEDAMA Seat: A beanbag style cushion made from automotive fabric.
(2)
A Japanese-style room where visitors can enjoy a virtual automotive
interior presented in full 3D.
2. Exhibit location
Via Privata Vincenzo Forcella 7, Milan, Italy
(Toyota Boshoku Milan
Design Branch, a specially prepared exhibition space located on the
outskirts of the city)
* 1: One of the world's largest international furniture trade fairs. A
wide array of design events are held in Milan city during the Milan
Salone exhibition. Here, furniture and interior manufacturers are joined
by manufacturers of consumer electronics, automobiles, fashion wear and
others - all gathered to emphasize and attract global interest to their
respective brands, designs, and new products.
* 2: Italian, meaning
'home'.
About Toyota Boshoku group
Toyota Boshoku group, one of the world’s premier interior system suppliers and filter manufacturers, develops and produces interior components, filtration and powertrain components at over 100 sites in 27 countries around the world. During the fiscal period ending in March 2014, Toyota Boshoku had consolidated net sales of 1,218 billion yen (approx. €9.4 billion) and operating income of 28 billion yen (approx. €215 million).
