SANAA's nextmaruni chairs at asia now

nextmaruni chair, 2005
photo © yoneo kawabe


'nextmaruni chairs' by japanese architecture duo SANAA (kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa),
were presented in designboom's 'asia now' exhibition held at dwell on design in los angeles.

produced initially in natural birch wood in 2005 by maruni wood industry inc.,
these elegant, tiny chairs were then released in a wider version in late 2008,
and in many nice colors in 2009.

the chair is now part of maruni's collection, and since 2010 available on the north american market,
in california through lola home furniture.


the color range
photo © yoneo kawabe




nextmaruni chair by SANAA
photo © yoneo kawabe




'asia now' installation view - japanese section
image © designboom



nextmaruni chairs by SANAA
image © designboom



nextmaruni chairs by SANAA
image © designboom



'asia now' installation view
image © designboom



graphics illustrated the current production of art, architecture and design in japan.
various image panels covered the wall of the japanese section of the 'asia now' exhibition.
image © designboom



close-up


nextmaruni chair, 2005
photo © yoneo kawabe



nextmaruni chair, 2005
photo © yoneo kawabe


the chairs were originally planned for the interior of SANAA's ‘house A’ -
a residence located in tokyo (2004). you can see more about the architectural project
here.



exhibition info panel


kazuyo sejima is director of ‘people meet in architecture’ the
12th international venice architecture biennale, august 29 - november 21, 2010.



exhibition panel

recent directors of the venice biennale's architecture section include:
massimiliano fuksas (2000), deyan sudjic (2002), kurt w. forster (2004), richard burdett (2006),
and aaron betsky (2008). kazuyo sejima is the first woman to direct the venice architecture biennale,
since its inception.