MANIERA 32

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 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, two partitions and seven lamps. Materials used are stainless steel, leather, rattan, glass and wood. A part of the collection was orginally designed for Ishigamli’s cave-like Ube House & Restaurant. Other pieces are conceived for Junya’s mother’s home, the Zama House (under construction).

Junya Ishigami, founded his own firm in 2004, after his time at Kazuyo Seijima & Associates. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, maverick Ishigami stands out for his innovative approach that harmoniously blends architecture, nature and engineering.
Ishigami is known for his ephemeral formal language, characterized by lightness and transparency, with which he creates dreamlike objects. His buildings appeal through their new spatiality and environmental richness, and explore the limits of the possible. He designed a multitude of large and unusual building projects in Asia, Europe and the United States.