COOL CYCLE_25 - ANDO EN REVERSO

With the detritus of good design strewn about history, the contemporary hype-beast "luxury" brand-world has overpopulated our lives with meaningless, yet powerfully manipulative, clothing. Like Tadao Ando, we at KZ_K are on a lifelong design quest to focus on the modern movement: in our case, to develop conceptually designed pieces (Cool Cycle_25 Collection is driven by precepts found in Ando's architecture) of precise development and manufacture, highlighting the power of the individual to create her own dream chamber, to fill up with as much life as one's imagination can encompass.

- KZ_K Studio

“After World War II, when Japan launched on a course of rapid economic growth, the people’s value criteria changed. The old, fundamentally feudal family system collapsed. Such social alterations as concentration of information and places of work in cities led to overpopulation of urban centers and underpopulation of agricultural and fishing villages and towns (as was probably true in other parts of the world as well). Overly dense urban and suburban populations made it impossible to preserve a feature that was formerly most characteristic of Japanese residential architecture: intimate connection with nature and openness to the natural world. What I refer to as an enclosed Modern Architecture is a restoration of the unity between house and nature that Japanese houses have lost in the process of modernization.”

-Ando