円和 ENWA · Tokyo Architecture Studio

Made for the hand, not the photo.

Eight solid-oak pieces — stools to sofas — drawn by architects, finished on every side. From $1,300.

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SOLID OAK·DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS·MADE FOR THE HAND·TOKYO·RESTORED FOR 50 YEARS·DDP TO 34 COUNTRIES·SOLID OAK·DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS·MADE FOR THE HAND·TOKYO·RESTORED FOR 50 YEARS·DDP TO 34 COUNTRIES·

The ENWA Collection

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Delivery

Insured, duties paid

Crated by hand, shipped DDP to 34 countries. The price you see includes duties — nothing owed on arrival.

Made to order

Cut for you · ~12 weeks

We hold no inventory. Each piece is built to order in solid oak — which is why it lasts decades, not seasons.

Built to keep

5-year structural warranty

Every joint guaranteed. And restorable for 50 years — a piece you maintain, not replace.

On arrival

We make it right

Arrives damaged or flawed? Photos within 7 days and we repair or remake it. No argument.

円和 ENWA · 円和 — roundness in harmony

Made to be
lived with.

ENWA — 円和, roundness in harmony — is the idea every piece is shaped by: we subtract every hard edge until the form resolves into the hand. Then it's made to be lived with — carried to a dune, sat on, leaned against, taken wherever the day goes. Not staged for a catalogue. Furniture that earns its place in a life.

The materials

The same mills behind the
world's finest furniture.
Priced honestly, direct from us.

We choose the same European weavers and certified materials the great design houses specify — then sell direct from the studio.

The cloth

Woven by Dedar and Kvadrat

Contract-grade textiles specified for five-star hotels and museums — woven in Milan and Denmark.

80,000 Martindale · past contract grade

The cushion

A seat that holds its shape

A dense, high-resilience core — the kind specified for aircraft and theatre seating. Certified low-emission.

55D HR foam · CertiPUR · OEKO-TEX

The wood

Solid oak, made to be handed down

Solid North American white oak — sealed on every face so it stays true through the seasons.

FAS grade · solid, never veneer

domesticcontractpremium

We'd rather offer a short list we stand behind than a catalogue. The one piece you stop replacing.

// First, the value

Design-house quality.
Without the design-house markup.

// Where each one sits

DESIGN, MATERIAL & CRAFT PRICE the sweet spot

IKEAparticleboard

HAY · Muutooak veneer

Roche BoboisMDF + veneer

Poliformsolid frame + MDF

MinottiMDF frame + veneer

B&B Italiaveneered MDF

Cassinasolid wood + veneer

Mililab ENWAsolid oak · direct

★ the sweet spot

Mililab ENWAsolid oak

Minottiveneer + MDF

B&B Italiaveneer on MDF

Cassinaveneer over board

Poliformveneer on MDF

Roche Boboisveneer on MDF

HAY · Muutooak veneer

IKEAparticleboard

Bar = price · oak = solid wood · grey = veneer

Positions reflect each maker's own published material specs · Minotti · B&B Italia · Poliform · Cassina · Roche Bobois · IKEA

SOLD DIRECT, NOT THROUGH RESELLERS · MATERIAL & PRICE CLAIMS DETAILED IN OUR TERMS

// Then, the wood

Built to be inherited,
not replaced.

Solid oakMililab — and almost no one else

re-oiled restored passed down

Veneer on plywoodHow Cassina & Roche Bobois build →

can't be refinished

Veneer on MDFmost design retail

wears to the core

Particleboardflat-pack / IKEA tier

replaced

newyr 10yr 25yr 4050 yrs

Construction methods from each maker's own published specs · Cassina: "wood veneer … base layer covered with thin sheets" · Roche Bobois: "MDF top with grooved oak veneer" · IKEA: "particleboard … top layer of hardwood"

OAK FAS IS THE HIGHEST APPEARANCE GRADE MILLED · CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS DRAWN FROM EACH MAKER'S PUBLISHED SPECS · DESIGNED IN-HOUSE BY MILILAB, A TOKYO ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

// Last, the part you touch

What you sit on. What you reach for.

The frame is forever — the cushion is what your hand meets every day. So every seat is built to contract grade: the durability written for hotels and museums.

// Cushion durability range · Martindale rub cycles

Sora sofa upholstery detail — woven fabric and leather

Signature woolIncluded · Kvadrat

Dedar boucléFlagship · the softest

Full-grain leatherUpgrade · patinas for life

Alcantara microfibreUpgrade · supercar suede

See how we choose every material →

Bestseller · 石 Ishi

Turn it.
Every angle resolved.

The stool that starts the collection. Solid oak, six cushion fabrics, finished on every side — drag to rotate and see every angle resolved. The lowest-risk way into a piece built to inherit.

Add Ishi · $1,300 See full details →

石 ISHI · STOOLSOLID OAK

Where it comes from

Before we made objects,
we made spaces.

Mililab is a Tokyo architecture studio. We don't style furniture — we engineer it, with the same discipline we bring to a building: how does the body meet it? What does it look like from the back, from the threshold, at dusk? That rigor is the whole difference.