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Chapter 01 · The Studio
A space worth living in is considered from every angle. Furniture should be held to the same standard.
Most furniture is made for the photo angle — easy to catalogue, easy to produce, and easy to forget once your hand meets the edge.
We come at it from architecture. So when a chair is made, the questions are different: how does the body meet it? How does it hold the edge of a space? What does it look like from the back, from the threshold, at dusk?
The pieces in ENWA were shaped the way spaces are shaped — by subtraction, until nothing extra remains.
— Mililab Studio · Tokyo
Selected works
We make spaces.
Before we made objects, we shaped spaces. The standard is the same.
And, we make objects.
Chapter 02 · The Collection
— Chapter 02b · Browse
Each piece, an object on its own. Drag to explore.
円和 · The Art of Subtraction
円和
Most things begin with lines drawn on paper.
We start with the surface your hand will meet
and subtract. Every edge, every boundary,
until only the essence remains.
What's left? A surface your hand follows without thinking.
— Chapter 03 · The Hero
A new piece. Six configurations. One sofa.
Anatomy
Four parts. One discipline.
01
Form
One continuous curve
Every corner dissolved, every hard line rounded, every place the eye would catch softened until only the shape remains.
02
Material
North American oak
One wood, one discipline. Kiln-dried for stability, then shaped and finished until the edge feels calm in the hand.
03
Method
Hundreds of iterations
Each piece is tested for proportion, structure, and touch. Yume took 200 iterations to ISO 7174. Maru took thousands. Not styled — resolved.
04
Angle
Finished on every side
The chair back looks as good as its front. The sofa floats mid-room. The round table has no head. Every angle is seen, so every angle is intentional.
— Object 02 of 8
線
Sen — dining table
A table designed by drawing one line and then softening it. The leg you barely notice is the detail your hand remembers.
Material
North American oak · blackened
From
$9,800
— Object 03 of 8
石
Ishi — stool
A compact oak form with the same softened edge language. It is the exception — a stone. Sit on it, lean against it, set a book on it. Move it across the room with your foot.
Material
North American oak
From
$1,800
— Chapter 04 · The Lineup
Solid oak. Tokyo-led. Eight pieces.
— Chapter 05 · The Process
Designed digitally. Resolved in oak.
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