Oruha
Oruha Chair by Yuya Nakazawa is a winner of the 2026 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Oruha is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
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The design presents a seat conceived as a public secret base, offering personal refuge within shared environments. Its structure balances sculptural presence with functional comfort, supporting extended use and social interaction. Curved surfaces and carefully proportioned elements create a sense of enclosure while maintaining openness. Natural finishes enhance durability, ease of maintenance, and graceful aging, allowing the piece to integrate into everyday living spaces while preserving tactile warmth.
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Oruha by Yuya Nakazawa
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2026.
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Oruha Chair
Oruha is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Oruha is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Oruha creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Yuya Nakazawa
Yuya Nakazawa is a furniture maker and video editor whose work bridges analog craft and digital storytelling. He approaches both disciplines as ways of shaping human emotion and experience. Through global travel, woodworking practice, and personal life events, his perspective was transformed, deepening his understanding of Japanese craft values within a contemporary, international context. His work contributes to society by creating durable, human-centered objects and narratives that encourage reflection, connection, and long-term use—offering an alternative to disposable, mass-produced culture. This integration of craft, narrative, and lived experience defines the relevance and distinctiveness of his practice.
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Born in Tokyo in 1984, he is a Japanese furniture craftsman and designer working at the intersection of analog making and editorial thinking. Drawing from his background in video editing, he approaches furniture as a medium for shaping human emotion through form, rhythm, and touch. His practice transforms personal experience into physical presence, emphasizing durability, sustainability, and material honesty. Committed to handcrafted production, his work prioritizes human connection and long-term use, enriching everyday life through authentic, tactile design.
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