WILDSIDE x Mitsukoshi Seisakusho Bamboo Chair
Charlotte Perriand, the French modernist who co-designed some of the 20th century's most recognized furniture alongside Le Corbusier, is said to have drawn inspiration from Umonji Kidokoro's 1937 Bamboo Chair. Kidokoro designed the piece while working in Mitsukoshi's furniture studio, the same operation now known as Mitsukoshi Seisakusho. WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO is reviving the chair in an all-black finish for its first collaboration with the studio, keeping the original construction: a bent-plywood frame wrapped in bamboo strips, a curved backrest, and a cantilevered seat that flexes under weight instead of resting on rear legs. The black lacquer treatment references traditional Japanese lacquerware and architecture, sharpening the chair's silhouette rather than just changing its color. A WILDSIDE logo is laser-etched into the backrest in a matte finish that only becomes visible under certain light. Each chair is handbuilt to order by a single Mitsukoshi Seisakusho craftsman, with a production length of about a year and a half. Only one shape rewards that kind of patience: the same curve Kidokoro bent by hand nearly 90 years ago.
