Yoko

Overview

The Yoko armchair is Inoda+Sveje's armchair for Minotti, with a solid wood frame whose legs and armrests are joined by cabinet-making interlocks. The page lists it with a dining little armchair and a bench/footstool.

Construction

• Frame in solid ash with open-pore Licorice lacquer, or in solid Canaletto walnut stained Light Brown with matt polyester lacquer, kiln-dried
• Seat and backrest: metal frame in flame-resistant polyurethane foam
• Extra top layer of channelled goose down on the armchair and the footstool
• Bronze-coloured stainless steel decorative screw on each armrest

Specifications

• Armchair: W 77 x D 75 x H 73 cm

Japanese name, Scandinavian lines

Minotti calls Yoko a seating design with a Japanese name and Scandinavian lines, and credits the Japanese-Danish couple Inoda+Sveje. The page says the cross-reference between the two cultures shapes a project that combines an armchair, a dining little armchair and a bench/footstool, each marked by a dual lightness, physical and aesthetic.

A joint left visible

Where the leg meets the armrest, both at the front and at the back, the wooden frame has a joint. Minotti describes it as a structural joint that becomes decorative through the way the wood is used, and its sheet notes the juncture mark on the armchair.