TTEOK

TTEOk means “rice cake” in Korean.

While studying weaving as a craft technique, I felt that its application in furniture has largely remained confined to flat, planar surfaces. To challenge this limitation, I attempted to elevate weaving into a more dimensional form by allowing it to extend and drape freely.

Materials such as rope or Danish cord weaving inherently lack the structural strength to maintain their form on their own, and therefore require a supporting frame. In this work, I boldly reinterpreted that frame as a circular structure, twisting its angle so that the woven surface can lean and depend on it.

The resulting form emerges from this interaction—where the flexible, gravity-driven nature of weaving meets a minimal yet unconventional frame, creating a suspended and sculptural presence.

In East Asia, making rice cake begins with cooking rice, then adding moisture and applying repeated impact to transform it into a cohesive mass. I drew this analogy because the process closely resembles the way a flat woven surface is elevated into a more dimensional form—through accumulation, pressure, and transformation.