BOOKCHAIR Collection

Sou Fujimoto, 2017

The design poetics of Sou Fujimoto meet the technological lightness of Alias in BOOKCHAIR, a bookcase for the home that is the result of a fresh, innovative approach. Drawing inspiration from the relationship between the architectural space and the human body, the Japanese architect designed a compact, simple bookcase from which a chair can be pulled out. An object within an object, which emphasizes the relationship between humans and books.

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The simple and extremely clean configuration of the bookcase is enriched by the soft, sinuous lines of the chair. BOOKCHAIR is available in one colour only – white – in order to underline the abstract nature of the product and the strong tie between the content and the container, between the container and the user. Supplied in one size, BOOKCHAIR is produced in lacquered MDF.

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Bookchair

Sou Fujimoto

One of Japan’s best-known contemporary architects, Sou Fujimoto (Hokkaido, 1971) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
He rose to fame a few years later when he won the Architectural Review Awards 3 years in a row, priize assigned to emerging figures in the architecture world. For Fujimoto, in the complexity of the natural environment “is injected the human sense of order (and vice versa), bringing forth a new definition of space that responds to changing times.”
In 2012, Fujimoto was part of the team that was awarded the Leone D'Orio at the Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition. In 2017, he designed the Bookchair project for Alias. He lives and works between Tokyo and Paris.

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