This spring, MANIERA Gallery is presenting a new furniture series by Junya Ishigami. The pieces will first be presented at Alcova during Salone del Mobile in Milan from 15 to 21 April, after which they will be on display at the gallery from 25 April onwards.
Ishigami’s work - both his architecture and his furniture - is elegant, delicate, understated and seemingly simple. But the apparent simplicity and sobriety of Ishigami’s designs is misleading, concealing its structural complexity and the efforts of the design team.
Ishigami’s first building, the KAIT Workshop at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, in 2008, marked instant success for the architect. The design was a forest-like structure of 305 slender white columns, each with specific dimensions and a unique orientation, surrounded only by glass, and contained by a simple steel roof. It took two years to determine the size, position and rotation of each column. Some other notable works include the Park Groot Vijversburg Visitor Center (2017), the Botanical Garden Art Biotop “Water Garden” (2018), the Serpentine Pavilion (2019), and the House & Restaurant (2022). His latest project is the Zaishui Art Museum in China. This linear museum of one kilometer long on a lake, is a powerful architectural gesture amid the overwhelming nature around.
New furniture design for Maniera Gallery by Junya Ishigami. Photograph by Jeroen Verrecht.
Ishigami prefers lightness to mass, fragility to gravity, and this is also visible in his designs for the new furniture series for MANIERA, consisting of dining chairs and rocking chairs, a low Zaisu chair, an atelier table, a dining table, a glass table, two partitions and seven lamps. Materials used are stainless steel, leather, rattan, glass and wood. A part of the collection was originally designed for Ishigami’s cave-like House & Restaurant. Other pieces are conceived for Junya’s mother’s home, the House (under construction).
The furniture series MANIERA 32 will not be issued in limited editions but made to order at an attractive price. This is a conscious choice by both Junya Ishigami and MANIERA, who wish to give the widest possible audience access to the pieces, available through the MANIERA website and a small range of carefully selected furniture stores around the world.
Ishigami’s work - both his architecture and his furniture - is elegant, delicate, understated and seemingly simple. But the apparent simplicity and sobriety of Ishigami’s designs is misleading, concealing its structural complexity and the efforts of the design team.
Ishigami’s first building, the KAIT Workshop at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, in 2008, marked instant success for the architect. The design was a forest-like structure of 305 slender white columns, each with specific dimensions and a unique orientation, surrounded only by glass, and contained by a simple steel roof. It took two years to determine the size, position and rotation of each column. Some other notable works include the Park Groot Vijversburg Visitor Center (2017), the Botanical Garden Art Biotop “Water Garden” (2018), the Serpentine Pavilion (2019), and the House & Restaurant (2022). His latest project is the Zaishui Art Museum in China. This linear museum of one kilometer long on a lake, is a powerful architectural gesture amid the overwhelming nature around.
New furniture design for Maniera Gallery by Junya Ishigami. Photograph by Jeroen Verrecht.
Ishigami prefers lightness to mass, fragility to gravity, and this is also visible in his designs for the new furniture series for MANIERA, consisting of dining chairs and rocking chairs, a low Zaisu chair, an atelier table, a dining table, a glass table, two partitions and seven lamps. Materials used are stainless steel, leather, rattan, glass and wood. A part of the collection was originally designed for Ishigami’s cave-like House & Restaurant. Other pieces are conceived for Junya’s mother’s home, the House (under construction).
The furniture series MANIERA 32 will not be issued in limited editions but made to order at an attractive price. This is a conscious choice by both Junya Ishigami and MANIERA, who wish to give the widest possible audience access to the pieces, available through the MANIERA website and a small range of carefully selected furniture stores around the world.
