Jonathan Yoshida Rowell

An American industrial designer living in New York. Currently design director at Cartier.
 

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R40

R40 is a stacking chair that aspires for a more ordinary approach to life. Its name is informed by its upper and lower “banners”, which share an outer arc equivalent to a 40 centimeter radius. It was fabricated using traditional methods, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Category: furniture
Materials: hard maple and ash (as shown)
Fabrication (prototype): Friedlander Furniture

2021