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atomi x gifu
atomi is collaborating with Gifu Perfectural Government to introduce the Japanese crafts and products from Gifu. We are having two exhibitions at atomi x furniture gallery (#04-29 of Mandarin Gallery) to showcasing the best of furniture and wood crafts from Nissin, Asahineko and Oak Village and atomi x lifestyle gallery (#04-27 of Mandarin Gallery) featuring Oda Pottery, Furukawa Paper Crafts, Ieda Paper. In additional, we are also styling the pop-up display at Orchard Road, in front of Takashimaya, Ngee Ann City. Please visit us to find out more about atomi x gifu.  atomi x nissin
atomi is collaborating with Nissin from Hida, Gifu to introduce simple yet beautiful modern furniture that have warm feeling when touched and comfortable to sit in; or sturdy and durable side tables that are in harmony with people and their environment. More than 1,000 years ago, there were people who had entertained almost the same expectations as ours - adoration for good quality, beautiful pieces of work.
  
 The Autumn Winter collection
Lightwood will now be available in red and black finished birch; two colors that will look good with the birch’s texture; and oak which is known for its bold wood grains. The new color finishes that have been applied thinly to the wood surface give an elegant look combined with the silhouette of the chair and lightly noticeable wood grains. It is graceful but still has an eye-catching existence.
 
      Roundish chair will now be available with the cushioned seat, which creates a beautiful oneness with the wood. The fabric used is the same as that of Hiroshima, making it easy to match colors with both series. Elegant autumn-like textures such as the beautiful Belgian fabric with rich colors and refined ivory colored leather have been newly added. Now with the comfort of the cushioned seat, the new Roundish chair provides a more relaxed and comfortable sitting with its pleasant seat and back that fits to the body.
Maruni x Monocle Cafe - 1st in the world
 
Global affairs magazine MONOCLE launched the Monocle Cafe at Yurakucho Hankyu Men’s Tokyo on 15th October 2011. This is Monocle’s first cafe in the world.
“We’ve long been interested in doing a cafe and are excited by the prospects of doing something with such a talented team in Tokyo. We want the Monocle cafe to offer the best tastes and experiences found on our editors’ travels and this means great coffee, cosy classic dishes and excellent desserts,” says Tyler Brûlé, MONOCLE’s editor-in-chief. The Monocle cafe links to the Monocle Shop, and also all back numbers are available. Operated by Transit General Office, and its coffee produced by Eiichi Kunitomo, a barista of Omotesando Koffee. The Hiroshima Arm chair (Releases in October 2011)
The Hiroshima Arm chair will be available in a new walnut material from this fall. The beautiful and clear wood grains of the walnut together with the exquisite design of the Hiroshima created an arm chair that has certain gravity in style and elegance, where you would want to rest your body deeply onto.
 New wood materials and different finishes have gradually been added since the launch of the chair in 2008, and now there will be a total of 8 different options available for the Hiroshima Arm chair. We hope that you will be able to experience the comfort of the chair and the fascination of walnut which our design and technology was able to draw out by determining the wood’s nature.
HIROSHIMA Arm chair in Walnut
Material: Walnut, Urethane resin finish
*Other 7 options: Beech (4 paint finishes) and Oak (3 paint finishes)
*Walnut option will be available only for the Hiroshima Arm chair (wooden seat) and Arm chair (cushioned).
*Information of these products will be available on the product page of our website in late October maruni << 7 pages feature in Japan's ELLE DECOR's June 2011!
  maruni << Now available - latest collection! - http://www.indesignlive.asia/articles/products/furniture/Milan-report-Jasper-Morrison-for-Maruni => new reports filed from Milan (April 2011) featuring atomi in indesignlive!
   ateliers Penelope << New arrivals in July 2011! Made in Japan bags | folders | cases | with canvas that are uniquely colored by the elements! There was a military truck running on the highway. its canvas top was trembling in the speeding air swelling up and shrinking down, over and over. exposed to the sun, beaten by the weather with aged wrinkles and washed-out colors the canvas seemed to develop its own countenance.
   Hana by Toshiyuki Kita
 atomi has recently signed an exclusive distribution and retail rights for MARUNI WOOD INDUSTRY INC. We are pleased to announce the partnership and will be showcasing their products in Feb 2010. In line with our mission to promote comfortable lifestyle and Japanese design, we hope to shape the standard of your future lifestyle through artwork.
"Furniture is a piece of artwork. A chair must be made so that the person sitting in it would look beautiful."
"Furniture has the power to brighten up not just the people using it, but also their whole lifestyle."
 The products born from this project value the identity of Japanese furniture, a unique "made by Maruni" furniture will be fantastic for value preservations. Together with Maruni, we challenge ourselves to shape the standard of your future lifestyle.
Seeking for unchanging value, even in the changing times - one simple line sum it all up for atomi x maruni partnership. It is precisely the parts that embrace the whole. In Japan, it is the details that hold totality, details are not parts of the whole but embrace the whole itself.
Maruni first started out with a strong and beautiful bentwood chair. Those were literally days of challenge for the craftsmen, as they struggled to figure out how to industrialize/systemize the intricate techniques, which had only been made possible by handiwork. Their sense of mission to produce good furniture was what had supported the craftsmen at those hard times. This "craftsmanship mind" has been carried on for the full 80 years of Maruni's history. They continue to devote ourselves to improving our techniques, and to produce lifestyle furniture that would be cherished for a long period of time. Even when family structures or lifestyles change along with the times, Maruni will always be aiming at one goal - to make furniture with universal value. Seeking for unchanging value, even in the changing times.  We have searched high and low for a good wooden chair that would be one whose essence seeped into our daily lives as it was used over time. With our "Japanese design x Comfortable lifestyle" belief, plain wood furnitures have been greatly featured in our boutique, that symbolise the warmth that one gets from handcrafted objects, rather than “design”. There is a subtle, exalted feeling of freshness, one that disallows any kind of impurity. What was aimed at with this chair and table was an image that was clean and subtle, while still having a human warmth to it. Thus we decided to bring in Maruni, especially the table and dining chair from the hiroshima series.
This series which we are bringing in is designed by Fukasawa is now available for viewing at atomi.
More about our partner - "Showa Bentwood Factory", established in 1928 was the forerunner of "Maruni Wood Industry Inc." which was established in 1933 has grown to be the top selling furniture manufacturer in Japan at that time. In the 1980's, Maruni was the first among competitors to launch the concept of "Total Coordination", as opposed to the conventional trend of selling furniture as a single item or as a combination set. Today, Maruni is laying the groundwork for further success, aiming at making furniture that are "people-friendly" and "earth-friendly", utilizing the techniques acquired from our history of 80 years.
New Collection Winter 2010
     Maruni Wood Industry / nextmaruni
atomi is proud to launch Nextmaruni armless chairs designed by SANAA, now available in various colours in Singapore! We are the exclusive distributor in Singapore, and you are one of the first to hear about it.
Maruni Wood Industry started up the Nextmaruni project in 2004. One of their chairs designed by SANAA (a partnership of 2 architects), popular for its lovable shape, will be available in various colours in Singapore from August 2010. After serious deliberation, the following six colours were chosen among a huge selection of sample colours: Pink, Green, Yellow, White-Beige, Brown and Dark-grey. In collaboration with the chair’s adorable “rabbit” silhouette, each colour provides a new enjoyment and appeal to the chairs.
These same armless chairs are being used at the Serpentine Gallery in London for its temporary Pavilion of 2009 designed by SANAA. (Colours were especially prepared for this Pavilion)
**Nextmaruni Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA Armless Chair -Colored Version**
Pink: Just the right touch of pink which shows calmness even in its brightness. An eye-catching, playful colour.
Green: Image is closer to yellow-green, with the same vividness as the Pink. It serves as an accent to the interior decor.
Yellow: Vivid, but has a clear, transparent tone and is fun to combine with other colours.
White Beige: Soft colour, similar to milk. Blends well even with modern interior decor.
Brown: Shows warmth, with colouring similar to that of chocolate. Easy to coordinate with various types of interior styling.
Dark Grey: Creates a relaxing atmosphere, and contrasts favourably with monotone-colour rooms.
Photography by Yoneo Kawabe
Specification: W370 x D420 x H820 / SH425 mm Weight 5.0kg
Material: Beech + Steel
> Specialized Coating: The natural-clear finish type is coated with a transparent-colour polyurethane resin to maximize the beauty of the wood surface. However with these new colours, nearly twice the time and effort is taken to double-coating, in order to express the colours vividly.
What is Nextmaruni?
It is a project that is promoted by Maruni Wood Industry Inc. since 2004, collaborating with designers, not just from Japan, but also from all over the world. It aims at the fusion of industry and culture, and by returning to their original goal, it seeks for design, service, furniture, and business. Furthermore, it has launched new products based on the theme of eight manifestations of the Japanese aesthetic by commissioning each designers every year; It continues to aim at manufacturing furniture that will be recognized worldwide, and that is born from the Japanese cultural thoughts.
Japanese Designer / Award Winning Watches
DUAL TIME 12+24 **limited edition, atomi is the only boutique in the world outside Japan to be selected as the authorized retailer**
Travelling from one time zone to another often causes confusion in our sense of time, not to mention the difficulty of keeping in touch with the time “back home”. The Dual Time 12 + 24 is an innovative wristwatch displaying both local and native time. Local time is displayed on a regular 12-hour face, while another 24-hour face displays the time “back home” making it easy to tell whether it is day or night. This simple to use unique wristwatch has a slim and solid body made of stainless steel and sapphire glass, is water-resistant and comes with an elegant leather strap in several different colors.  The Dual 12+24 time collection is exquisitely made in Japan for a limited edition of 500 pieces worldwide. atomi is pleased to announce that we are awarded with the sole exclusivity distributionship of this collection in Singapore. With its special design, it is not surprise that the watch won the Katsumi Masaru Award, Mainichi Design Special Award, IF Design. Features 3 hands / 24 hours hand, the SEIKO EPSON / RONDA movement mechanism housed in 3 bar water resistant stainless steel is a fitting tribute to its inventor Takenobu Igarashi. The watches are sold exclusively at atomi. You are getting an exclusive, authentic, and high-quality timepiece from Japan available for the very first time outside Japan here in Singapore. Only watches bought from atomi in Singapore are covered by our principal’s international warranty.
 eKi watch **Winner of Japanese Good Design Award**
 Takenobu Igarashi, who designed “Big Clock of Stars on the outside wall of Sapporo Station, Hokkaido, also designed another clock hung at both west and east concourse of the station. This clock has black and white double-faced dials and the numbers half below on the dials are designed in a right direction for an easy glance from the ground. Now, the design of the dial is newly introduced to both the wall clock and the wristwatch. The watch is thin and strong with its simple case made of stainless steel and sapphire glass, and is water resistant, plus the elegantly finished leather band. The clock consists of a thin and simple aluminum case by the precise work and it pursues the ultimate basic design as a clock.
 Together with the Dual Time 12+24, the eki watch is now available exclusively at atomi. With different color for the face and the straps, come visit us at Mandarin Gallery, #04-27, 333A Orchard Road, Singapore, to view the entire collection of fine watches made in Japan by award winning designer.
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