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Karimoku

Karimoku is a wooden furniture manufacturer from central Japan with a history of more than 70 years.
Their tradition derives from a deep understanding of artisan carpentry in combination with cutting-edge technologies for the construction of high-quality furniture possible.
Collaborating with some of the most promising international design talents such as the Dutch creative couple Scholten and Baijings or the Swiss Big Game studio, the KARIMOKU NEW STANDARD division was created and launched in 2009, a growing collection of innovative, joyful and functional objects which adapt to urban life forms in the 21st century.
With the aim of preserving and revitalizing Japanese forests and regaining balance with the local forestry industry, our products are made using sustainable Japanese woods, such as maple, chestnut and oaks – small – diameters that are often discarded or finish like paper pulp.
KARIMOKU NEW STANDARD pieces are made to give lasting joy, faithful to the belief that a piece of furniture should last at least as long as the tree from which it was made.

The story of Karimoku, a leader in Japanese wooden furniture production, began as a small carpentry shop in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture in 1940. Shohei Kato took over a timber company that already existed in the Edo period.
Processing technologies, surface treatment and wood coloring were accumulated through the subcontracting of the various wooden parts in the mid-1900s: spinning machines that supported Japan’s post-war reconstruction in the 1940s; sewing machine tables, piano parts and TV stands with wooden legs in the 1950s; and the company of the time sought original furniture for the domestic market in the early 1960s.
Since then, Karimoku has focused on pursuing its original concept of “high-tech and high-touch” products by defining bases in timber production areas. Karimoku has a large and reliable supply of large-scale advanced materials and structures showing techniques of craftsmen in the greatest possible extension. In addition, the company has also put in place a national system for wholesale and after-sales services for product care. Thus, Karimoku has developed a unique and unprecedented system that traverses the procurement of materials, production and sales within a company.
Karimoku also aims to help improve people’s lives to meet the challenges presented by environmental issues. This is demonstrated in the history of over 30 years of Karimoku in the reform and use of “Parawood”, a product derived from rubber trees after its use in latex production.

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Moooi: mobili, interni e illuminazione moderni olandesi

Moooi

For 20 years now, Moooi has inspired and seduced the world of design with sparkling, innovative, ironic and courageous projects.
The Dutch company was founded in 2001 by Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers initially to propose the projects of Marcel Wanders himself, who in the 90s made himself known to the famous Dutch collective of designers Droog Design mainly thanks to his knitted chair, Knotted Chair, later edited by Cappellini; Wanders’ designs are often too original for design companies, so this publishing house is founded in order to maintain its independence and creativity intact: Moooi which means “beautiful” in Dutch.
Marcel Wanders’ capricious, unique and provocative style is fully expressed in the Moooi collection. In addition to the creations designed by Marcel himself, Moooi also edits other well-known designers such as Bertjan Pot, Jasper Morrison. Ross Lovegrove, Studio Job… enriching the catalog every year with always surprising pieces.
The company does not hesitate to leave the usual and aesthetic paths of design by editing unusual and courageous creations such as the surprising spider-shaped chandelier, composed of a multitude of technical desk lamps and called Dear Ingo in tribute to the Master of light Ingo Maurer , created by Ron Gilad in 2003 or even the “charred” Smoke wooden armchair from 2002 by Maarten Bass, who later became one of the most acclaimed Dutch designers.
In this way, the Moooi collection easily combines a suspension in pressed white paper by the creative couple Studio Job and a life-size black horse wearing a lamp on its head, a project signed by the Swedish studio Front Design and part of a particularly iconic collection completed from a rabbit_lampada and a pig-table.
Many designers are now called to collaborate with the company, always under the artistic direction of Marcel Wanders, now sought after by all the most important international design companies, from Flos to Baccarat, from Cappellini to Alessi; recent collaborations include those with Jaime Hayon, Nika Zuoanc, Joost van Bleiswijk.
Moooi’s style has not changed since the beginning and has remained exclusive, bold, playful … based on the belief that design is a matter of love, irony and joy. They are timeless objects, which possess the uniqueness and character of antiques combined with the freshness of modern times. This merger leads the brand to focus more and more on the production of iconic and spectacular objects.
With this unique and iconic mix of lighting, furniture and accessories, the company creates interior spaces decorated with a variety of inspiration of models and colors to embrace any type of space, domestic and public, and makes people of different ages, cultures fall in love and personality.
This vision of unexpected home always highlights new ideas with a clever touch of magic. Behind the apparent irony and playfulness there are always intelligent projects, the result of continuous reflections on the way of living and living and its continuous changes.

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