Naoshima is a collection of stools and tables for the contract market that experiments with the structural and expressive potential of curved plywood.
The Naoshima stool combines four identical pieces of plywood to construct the seat. The seat, together with four wooden legs, creates a solid and unique whole. The empty spaces generated in the corners of the plywood seat make Naoshima a light and visually vibrant piece of furniture. The Naoshima stool is produced in three different finishes: natural oak and dyed or lacquered beech.
The plywood top of the Naoshima table seems to split into two in order to trap the central leg. Depending on the different sizes the central leg is manufactured in lacquered metal or solid wood. The 70 and 110cm-high models include hooks for bags or jackets. .....more
