maruni and minä perhonen mark ten years of collaboration with a mosaic-chair capsule
Hiroshima furniture maker maruni Wood Industry and textile house minä perhonen are marking a decade of joint projects with a new capsule of mosaic chairs and limited-run rugs, sold only at maruni's four directly run Japan stores -- a bet on craft storytelling over discounting.
maruni Wood Industry, the Hiroshima furniture maker founded in 1928, and minä perhonen, the Japanese textile and fashion house led by designer Akira Minagawa (皆川明), said they will mark the tenth edition of their joint project "Peace, Piece" with a new capsule running from November 6 to January 11, 2027, sold only at maruni's four directly run Japan stores -- in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka -- plus its online shop.
The centrepiece is a new version of the companies' MARUNI60 Mosaic chair, which pieces together zaizai (端材, leftover wood scraps) into its frame, reupholstered in three minä perhonen jacquard patterns, "rosy," "following day" and "wolf & flower." maruni priced the one-seater at ¥217,800 including tax, the two-seater at ¥429,000, a high-back one-seater at ¥300,300 and a stacking stool at ¥53,900, according to the companies.
Two limited-run rugs, "wind flag" and "kivi," priced at ¥77,000 each, go on sale from November 6 at the four stores ahead of a wider release, maruni said. The Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka stores will also carry minä perhonen homeware and apparel; the Tokyo store carries only the rugs. From December 10 the lineup adds seconds-grade tableware and pieces from minä perhonen's "Piece," line, and the companies are tying the capsule to Tsugu minä perhonen (つぐ minä perhonen, roughly "passing on minä perhonen"), an exhibition at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design running through December 7.
Minagawa himself is booked across the run: ticketed talks (¥4,950) in Tokyo on December 6, and in Osaka and Hiroshima on December 13, with a live viewing at the Fukuoka store, plus fabric-styling sessions for the Mosaic one-seater, signings tied to a co-branded Maruman croquis sketchbook, and workshops making patchwork cushions and wooden kagami-mochi (鏡餅) New Year ornaments.
A decade in, "Peace, Piece" is maruni's clearest example of how Japan's premium furniture makers build loyalty without discounting: a scrap-wood construction technique reframed as craft rather than economy, sold exclusively through the company's own four stores rather than a department-store concession, and bundled with a ticketed calendar of talks and workshops that turn a product drop into an event. The absence of any department-store listing is itself a signal -- maruni is keeping this capsule, and the margin and brand control that comes with it, entirely in-house.