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Itoki and NII's PIGNA receive the Encouragement Award (Chairman's Award) at the Wood Design Award 2026.
The chair "HAKUSAN" also won an award in the lifestyle design category.
ITOKI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato) has announced that its "PIGNA" divider sofa from its office furniture brand "NII" has received an Encouragement Award (Chairman's Award) in the Lifestyle Design category of the "Wood Design Award 2026" (organized by the Japan Wood Design Association). In addition, the brand's chair "HAKUSAN" also received an award in the same category.
About the award-winning product
PIGNA: Lifestyle Design Category, Products Division, Encouragement Award (Jury Chairman's Award)
This furniture comes in two styles: a divider and a sofa. It features scale-like panels made of chestnut wood that allow light and air to pass through while providing just the right amount of privacy. You can choose from three heights to suit your privacy needs: a low type that allows you to see your surroundings, a middle type that offers just the right amount of coziness, and a high type (divider only) that gently divides the space.
Designer: AMDL CIRCLE
Product page: https://www.nii-ingenious.com/ja/collections/pigna/
HAKUSAN: Lifestyle Design Division, Products Section
This chair, crafted from a single sheet of molded beech plywood on a die-cast aluminum and steel frame, combines individuality with universality. The frame, integrated with the armrests, is made of straight tubes, making it elegant yet robust, easy to move, allowing for flexible seating positions, and easy stacking. Combined with the press-formed seat and waterfall-shaped front edge, its refined appearance can be considered a new archetype for stacking chairs.
Designer: Industrial Facility
Product page: https://www.nii-ingenious.com/ja/collections/hakusan/
What is the Wood Design Award?
This awards program aims to reconstruct the goodness and value of wood through the power of design, and recognizes and awards outstanding architecture, spaces, products, activities, systems, and research. In its 12th year, 235 entries were selected as winners out of a total of 380 submissions. The top awards, including the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, Special Award, and Encouragement Award, will be presented at the "BEYOND SDGs EcoPro/EcoPro EARTH" event held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 2nd to 4th, where the awards ceremony and exhibition will take place.
Wood Design Award official website: https://www.wooddesign.jp/
About Itoki's Workplace Business
ITOKI CORPORATION was founded in 1890. With the mission statement of "We Design Tomorrow. We Design WORK-Style. the company supports the creation of a variety of spaces, environments, and places, leveraging its strengths in "AI x Design based on people," including the manufacture and sale of office furniture, office space design, “Space," “Environment," and “Place" consulting, and office data analysis services, as well as furniture for working from home and studying at home, and equipment for public facilities and logistics facilities.
As hybrid work becomes more common and places and ways of working become more diverse, we are developing spatial digital transformation to enhance productivity and creativity, as well as consulting services to support optimal office operations. We are also proactively collaborating with external designers and partner companies to propose new work styles and workplaces for the future.
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