空 · Sora · Sofa
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Chapter 01 · The Studio
A room worth living in is resolved from every angle. Furniture should be held to the same standard.
Most furniture is designed by furniture designers — engineered for production, optimised for catalogue photography, sold by the linear meter.
We come at it from the room. So when a chair is made, the questions are different: how does the body meet it? How does it hold the corner of a room? What does it look like from the back, from the threshold, at dusk?
The pieces in ENWA were resolved the way a room is resolved — by subtraction, until nothing extra remains.
— Mililab Studio · Tokyo
Selected works
We make spaces.
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 at the other end — with the solid block
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
Solid white oak
Cut from a single material. Kiln-dried twice over nineteen days. Joined into one continuous plane.
03
Method
Hundreds of iterations
Each piece is resolved through computational structural simulation. Yume took 200 iterations to ISO 7174. Maru took thousands. Not styled — solved.
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 dissolving it. The leg you don’t notice is a curve resolved through hundreds of structural iterations.
Material
Solid white oak · blackened
From
$9,800
— Object 03 of 8
石
Ishi — stool
One block of oak. No iteration count. 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
Solid white 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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