* Office Summer Holidays :: 8/11 - 8/15 2010

Maruni Wood Industry is closed from 8/11 to 8/15 for the summer holidays.

“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

Greetings for the new year 2010.
We appreciate your continuing support for Nextmaruni and Maruni Wood Industry Inc..

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

One of Nextmaruni's chairs designed by SANAA (a partnership of 2 architects), popular for its lovable shape, will be available in various colors this autumn. After serious deliberation, the following six colors were chosen among a huge selection of sample colors: Pink, Green, Yellow, White-Beige, Brown and Dark-Grey. In collaboration with the chair’s adorable “rabbit” silhouette, each color provides a new enjoyment and appeal to the chairs.

These same armless chairs are being used at the Serpentine Gallery in London for its temporary Pavilion of 2009 designed by SANAA. (Colors were especially prepared for this Pavilion)

<< Nextmaruni Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
Armless Chair -Colored Version >>

New Colors: Pink, Green, Yellow, White Beige, Brown, Dark Grey

Specification: W370 x D420 x H820 / SH425 mm Weight 5.0kg
Material: Beech + Steel

< Specialized Coating >
The natural-clear finish type is coated with a transparent-colored polyurethane resin to maximize the beauty of the wood surface. However with these new colors, nearly twice the time and effort is taken to double-coating, in order to express the colors vividly.

< Coating Method >
(1) First the white-colored base coating is painted as a foundation, then is carefully polished with sandpaper to smooth out the surface.
(2) The carefully mixed color is painted onto the polished base, and the surface is polished once again. The tiny particle of the white-base coating helps to create a smoother surface. By recoating this surface with the colored paint, it produces an even and highly-adhesive color film coating.
(3) Polyurethane resin is coated above the color film, finishing off the surface so that the coating is damage and stain-proof, requiring little maintenance.
By carefully repeating each coating method by the hand of a craftsman, an even and vivid colored finish is made possible.

* These products will be on display at the Maruni Tokyo Showroom from late October. We look forward to your visit.

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
Address: 16-20 Goodhope Street, Paddington, Sydney NSW 2021 Australia

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
Address: Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA

"Maruni Wood Industry will be exhibiting inside the sozo_comm booth at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile / International Furniture Design Fair 2009 in Milan"

/// Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009 in Milan ///
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

Maruni Wood Industry has 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.
Maruni Wood Industry 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)

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