Maruni

Hiroshima armchair will be displayed at the "Kansei Design Showcase".
At this exhibition, there will be many qualified products from Japan that will offer new experiences and stories, and will build a relationship with the user.

This exhibition will be held in Kanazawa in Japan, and also in Hong Kong. We would like to have many people from different countries to feel the furniture that will be theirs to use for a lifetime, and to learn our careful manufacturing techniques. Many products from other companies that are very talented will also be on display at this exhibition. Please enjoy.

"Kansei Design Showcase"
Resonance - Design for the new experience and for a new story
URL: www.kansei-kachi.com

/// Kansei Design Showcase in Kanazawa ///
Date: Saturday, October 16th - Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Venue: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

/// Kansei Design Showcase in Hong Kong ///
Date: Thursday, December 2nd - Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

Naoto Fukasawa, the designer of Hiroshima, Traditional Series and some products of Nextmaruni will give a special lecture for "Invisible"--The 6th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar. This event will be held by the Alvar Aalto Academy.
“The Alvar Aalto Academy is an international discussion forum within the field of environmental culture, particularly contemporary architecture. The Academy also focuses actively on promoting further education in architecture. Founded in 1999, the Alvar Aalto Academy operates in conjunction with the Alvar Aalto Foundation.” (from the academy's website)

[Invisible--The 6th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar]
Date: 21st - 22nd August
Venue: The seminar venue is at the main auditorium of the University of Jyväskylä (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55).

*Check more information at www.alvaraalto.fi/designseminar/2010/.

“THE SHAPE OF IMAGINATION” directed by Naoto Fukasawa is being held at LUMINAIRE in CHICAGO, until 30th July.
The armchair from the Hiroshima series is exhibited with his other products.
Please visit this amazing exhibition, and enjoy the shape of his design and the cohesive theme between his body of work.

“THE SHAPE OF IMAGINATION”
Date: 14th June – 30th July
Venue: LUMINAIRE
301 West Superior Chicago, Illinois 60654
TEL: 312.664.2433
URL: www.luminaire.com

“asia now” curated by designboom which aims to present and explore asia's design culture will take place at the “dwell on design” fair in Los Angeles, June 25th -27th, 2010. From our Nextmaruni series, the armless chair designed by SANAA will be exhibited there. Please visit and enjoy the exhibition!

“asia now” / dwell on design fair
Date: 25th – 27th June
Venue: The Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH HALL
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 741-1151
URL: dwell on design: www.dwellondesign.com
designboom: www.designboom.com

Thank you for visiting the exhibition in Spazio Rossana Orlandi and our site at Fiera site. We hope that you enjoyed “the event” with our collection. We received fabulous responses about our new line-up and these new items would be available in your location soon.
We hope all of you to enjoy the beautifulness and warmness of this piece of work.
->Click to see more photos of our exhibition site.

Date: Wednesday April 14th - Monday April 19th, 2010
Time: 10am - 8pm
Location: Spazio Rossana Orlandi www.rossanaorlandi.com
Via Matteo Bandello 14/16 -20123 Milano +39 02 46 74 47-1
Organizer: passaggio www.passaggiomilano.com
Sponsors:
ONAO CO.,LTD. www.onao.co.jp
PLUS MINUS ZERO CO., LTD. www.plusminuszero.jp
Maruni Wood Industry Inc. www.maruni.com

The exhibition site will be at a gallery which is located in the portion of the Spazio Rossana Orlani. Each company's products will be displayed in a white arched room where natural light warmly shines in. We are planning to display the sofa from the Traditional Series and the armchair and table from the Hiroshima series. We are sure that visitors will enjoy the comfort of our pieces on display at this exhibition.

New items have been added to the Hiroshima series.
A small comfortable chair that follows the same look as the Hiroshima armchair, and the ottoman that can be used as a set with the Hiroshima lounge chair will be newly added to the Hiroshima series.
There will also be a new coated color; brown for the oak wood, which will give a polished look, and we will also be introducing leather for the seat covers exclusively for this brown color. Now with natural, black and brown color options for the wood, we hope to give more choice variations to meet the customer’s taste for styling their home.

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Rather than a chair created through the assembly of square pieces of timber, what has been fashioned is a small chair with an untouched feel to it that appears as though it has been hewn from a single log. The rounded back of the chair, which follows the contour of the human back, overlaps with the image of the Hiroshima armchair. Along with the new ottoman coupled with the lounge chair, try the subtle, rich feel sitting in this chair affords.
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* New items will be shown on the Product Pages of Maruni Collection in late March.

www.maruni.com/collection/en/

Date: April 14th - 19th, 2010
Opening Hours: 9:30am - 6:30pm
Venue: Milan Fairgrounds / Rho, Milan (Fiera Milano Nuovo Quartiere)

sozo_comm will be located at HALL 6 STAND E48
Website for sozo_comm: english.sozocomm.jp
Website for Salone Internazionale del Mobile: www.cosmit.it

We will display our furniture from Hiroshima series at the largest annual furniture design fair in Europe, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010. Please come by our exhibition space in the sozo_comm booth.
For details of sozo_comm, please refer to their website. (english.sozocomm.jp)

When you lift the top part of the cone, the shoehorn comes away like a conic section. As the name suggests, shoehorns were first made by carving animal horns; the shearing motion of the shoe-horn pays homage to its origins. The shoehorn and stand, connected by an embedded neodymium magnet, are carved from a single block of wood for complete continuity of the wood grain. The shoehorn can be removed with one hand; the stand is weighted for proper resistance.

www.maruni.com/shoe-horn/en/

The Cord-chair designed by nendo which was released last autumn has received the Best Chair award from the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2010.

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2010:
www.wallpaper.com/designawards/2010/

We have moved our Nextmaruni website to www.maruni.com/nextmaruni/e/ from www.nextmaruni.com/e/.
Please update your bookmark with the new URL.

We released the colored armless chairs by Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA from Nextmaruni series in October.
We prepared the product list. Please download it from here:
Nextmaruni colored armless chairs designed by SANAA

Also we added this list to the catalog of Nextmaruni:
Nextmaruni catalog

The Cord-chair is exhibited at nendo's personal exhibition - Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo, until 10 January in New York. Please visit the exhibition, and feel the subtle beauty of nendo.

"Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo"
Date: October 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Venue: Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 USA
More info: www.madmuseum.org

We added a video which shows the structure and manufacturing process of the Cord-chair to the chair's website:
www.maruni.com/cord-chair/en/

Also we added the new autumn products of Maruni Collection to the collection's website. The new products are a side board, coffee table, rectangular table (extension) and new fabrics for Hiroshima, a oval table (extension) for Traditional Series.
Please take a look the "Products" section on the website:
www.maruni.com/collection/en/

The Cord-chair, a collaboration with Nendo, has legs only 15 mm in diameter.
Rather than assembling wood panels around 9mm stainless steel frame, we decided to hollow out pieces of wood to clad each part of the frame. We were particularly interested in showing off the flawlessness of the wood material. Each of the chair's parts is carved from wood, left simple and undecorated to bring out the flawlessness of the material. Since each part is only 3 mm wide, the chair must be made by hand, rather than with mass-production machinery. Each chair is carved by artisans who took special care to align the wood grain. The Cord-chair is not about the kind of 'mechanical beauty' that seeks the least common multiple in form and structure. Rather, with the Cord-chair, nendo wanted to explore the relationship between materials like the metal wiring within an electrical cord and the rubber that encases it. Like reinforced concrete, the chair separates and highlights the role of each element. It liberates wood from structure, allowing the material's natural warmth and softness to come into sharp focus, and bringing out its greatest common denominator.

www.maruni.com/cord-chair/en/

The MARUNI COLLECTION 2009 that we announced in February of this year had new living room items from the HIroshima series, such as the sofa, which would be a key item in creating a luxurious life style.
For 2009 / Autumn, we would like to introduce more items that will enrich the living space. These new items include an exquisite sideboard, a simple coffee table and new fabric variations which will be matching to the sofa and lounge chair that were announced earlier this year. (All available from Hiroshima) Also, we have a new extendable table added to the dining room items, from both Hiroshima and Traditional Series. This table was produced in response to many requests from our clients.
Maruni Collection will expand its world slowly, by carefully taking the necessary time. We are proud to say that the designer and our technicians spend an enormous amount of time and effort into the respectful manufacturing process. We hope that these new items will again show the comfort and carefulness that we continuously put importance to.

HIROSHIMA Sideboard 160
Size: W160 x D45 x H58 (cm)
Material & Color: beech / matt black (beech) / oak

HIROSHIMA Rectangular Table (Extendable)
Size: W220 (180) x D85 x D70 (cm)
Material & Color: beech / matt black (beech) / oak

HIROSHIMA Coffee Table 80
Size: W80 x D80 x D41 (cm)
Material & Color: beech / matt black (beech) / oak

HIROSHIMA New Fabrics (for Sofa, Lounge Chair, and Upholstered Seat Covers)
Material: rayon 67%, cotton 16%, linen 15%, silk 2% *Teflon antifouling water repellent finish
Color: Ivory / dark brown / black
* In addition to the previous model sofa that offers covers for the whole sofa, we now have the same sofa in a different model that has covers available only for the back and seat cushions (will not be available for the main frame)。

TRADITIONAL SERIES Oval Table (Extendable)
Size: W223 (180) x D90 x H70 (cm)
Material & Color: beech / matt black (beech)

* These new products will be on display at the Maruni Showroom in Tokyo from late October. We look forward to your visit.
* New items will be shown on the Product Pages of Maruni Collection in late October.

www.maruni.com/collection/en/

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 has opened from July 12th. The Pavilion which will only be open for a limited time, has been designed by renowned architects every year. This year’s Pavilion was designed by SANAA, who is also one of the designers of Nextmaruni. Nextmaruni’s armless chairs are placed throughout the spacious site.

The Pavilion is floating aluminium, drifting freely between the trees like smoke. The reflective canopy undulates across the site, expanding the park and sky. The contrast of the appearance of surrounding landscape and green is beautiful and impressive.
We hope you will enjoy the visit.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA

Date: July 12th – October 18th, 2009
Location: Serpentine Gallery
URL: www.serpentinegallery.org
Address: Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA

Nextmaruni's armless chair designed by SANAA is displayed at the "Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA" exhibition currently showing at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Sydney.

We hope you get a chance to visit and enjoy the exhibition.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

Date: July 3rd - September 26th, 2009
Location: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
URL :: www.sherman-scaf.org.au
Address: 16-20 Goodhope Street, Paddington, Sydney NSW 2021 Australia

Date: April 22nd – 27th, 2009
Opening Hours: 9:30am – 6:30pm
Venue: Milan Fairgrounds / Rho, Milan (Fiera Milano Nuovo Quartiere)

sozo_comm will be located at PADIGLIONE 6 STAND E48
Website for sozo_comm: english.sozocomm.jp
Website for Salone Internazionale del Mobile: www.cosmit.it

We have been approved to participate in sozo_comm, known as
"Consumer Products Industry Brand Development Program" which
is implemented by the International Development Association for the
Furniture Industry of Japan (IDAFIJ), and will exhibit at the Europe’s
largest annual furniture design fair, Salone Internazionale del
Mobile 2009.

Across 186 square meters of floorspace at the Fairgrounds at
PADIGLIONE 6 STAND E48, the sozo_comm exhibition will showcase
an exemplary range of new products from 5 small to mid-size furniture
design
and manufacturing firms, handpicked from 29 finalists.

We will be showing the HIROSHIMA series from the MARUNI COLLECTION and
some items from the Nextmaruni project. These products have been
selected for
the exceptional functionality and design, which are seen to possess
the competitive
edge and marketability necessary to succeed in mature overseas
markets such as
Europe and the US. Please stop by our exhibition inside the sozo_comm
booth at
the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009 in Milan. For details,
please refer to their website. (english.sozocomm.jp)