DESIGN | FURNITURE | MALANG | 2025
Text provided by the design studio. Taku means home. Being WOF’s first catalogue, Taku is also a living archive. It has become a foundational home where ideas are collected, organized, and developed. Since the beginning, Taku has lived up to the meaning of its name: as an initial space that offers a foothold, as a place where we have organized and built WOF’s journey so far.
WOF began its journey with Taku. It is not only the first object designed but also a symbol of time and a starting point for an ongoing process. Over these five years, various forms, approaches, and ideas have emerged and developed alongside Taku, much like a line that has slowly started to find its own direction.
Through this exhibition, WOF aims to revisit everything that has happened: how a form starts, is tested, questioned, and finally matures. Each Taku presented is not a final result, but rather an authentic process undertaken with awareness. From Taku, WOF learns that an object is not something that remains static.
Taku’s Journey
In 2020, the first Taku was launched, utilizing Kembang wood for its prototype. Between 2020 and 2021, the final Taku design was established with Meranti Wood. This design retained a triangular support and a distinctive blue mark, bearing witness to its story. In the 2021-2022 period, Taku (2022) became the best-selling product, featuring fine-grained Meranti Wood that offered a more subdued aesthetic. There was a plan to later transition to Sungkai, whose fibers are more pronounced yet remain natural. As of 2023, the material was officially changed to Sungkai Wood. Taku’s design has since stabilized with no significant changes, signifying its maturity as a product. In 2025, an artistic experiment involved rearranging previous Taku pieces to give rise to a new Taku, metaphorically ‘born of itself.
Design Talk
As part of the event series, WOF featured a Design Talk session that served as a platform for diverse creative perspectives from industry professionals, all within a warm and inspiring atmosphere.
Asterianne, from Byast—Interior Design, urged the audience to broaden their understanding of how emotions influence space arrangement, making the case that the full spectrum of human feeling can’t be captured by mere formulas.
Sayoganata, an architect, discussed how an authentic idea can shape architectural design, a principle he has consistently applied throughout his journey with Ciri Diri.
Bramantya Arief—a photographer—invites the audience to explore how simple elements around us can be crafted into impactful and meaningful visual narratives.
Ezza Putra Fahmi, Co-Founder of Stoffel, also shared his views on the essence of designing with feeling. According to Ezza, good design isn’t just about aesthetics; it should also have a clear direction and intention—a principle that forms the foundation of every work produced.
To complement the discussion, Binsar Priandika from WOF shared the story behind the birth of Sekitar Bench, a product inspired by natural forms and the need for social functions in shared spaces. Through this Design Talk, WOF invites the community to celebrate the diversity of ideas and explore the meaning behind every creative process.
Through Taku’s journey from 2020 to 2025, WOF not only demonstrates how a product is born and develops but also creates a space to re-examine the processes and values that shape it. Taku serves as both a starting point and a medium for learning about form, time, and consciousness in creation. This exhibition isn’t an ultimate celebration, but rather a momentary pause to look back, observe what has been accomplished, and contemplate what is currently being worked on.
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