Remember Makoto Azuma’s Herman Miller Aeron chair covered with Astroturf? Well Herman Miller Japan is now expanding the initiative to encompass 4 additional artists and their unique interpretation of the iconic chair. In collaboration with more trees, musician Ryuichi Sakamoto’s environmental organization, Aeron with Art will offer each of these one-of-a-kind chairs up for sale (500,000 yen) in a charity event in which all proceeds will go towards helping victims of the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami.
Swell-Aeron Chair by Kohei Nawa
Aeron Chair for Air by Yasuhiro Suzuki
(to be honest I don’t get this one)
Sit on the Green by Azuma Makoto
warp by Yuko Nagayama
Ancestor of Chair-by Yosuke Hayano
(Hayano worked at Zaha Hadid for 1 year before setting up shop. See the influence?)
The chairs will be on display tomorrow (July 28, 2011) at Art Fair Tokyo, subsequently being moved to the Herman Miller Store in Marunouchi. (see details below)
source: Rightning press release
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Aeron with Art
Art Fair Tokyo preview – B2F Exhibition Hall
07.28.2011
16:00 pm
TICKETS REQUIRED
Herman Miller Store Marunouchi
07.29.2011 – 08.07
11:30-20:00
FREE
July 29, 2011 at 3:45 am
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