Gateway to stylish furniture
Though we've already included the Karimoku New Standard line of contemporary furniture as one of our picks from last year's Tokyo Design Week, we've found good reason to cover it again — the line is finally going on sale, exclusively at Cibone in the Aoyama district of Tokyo. With creative direction from Isolation Unit's Teruhiro Yanahigara and a lineup of designers that spans the globe, the result is a collection of furniture that, as we've come to expect, adds a stylish modern twist to the Japanese wood furniture of Karimoku. There's a lot to love, but we'll point you toward the Torii chair, designed by Satoshi Seto and Takahiko Fujimori, part of Karimoku's in-house design team who are now attached to the new Torii line. As the name suggests, it takes its design cue from the traditional gateways found at Japan's Shinto shrines. The Torii chair is available with either a beige (¥45,600) or black (¥47,100) seat.