Tomoya Tabuchi was born in 1974 and completed the living design programme at Kuwasawa Design School in 1997. He then worked for a Japanese furniture company, where his role ranged from planning and original product design to adapting the work of overseas designers for production. He became independent in 2010, and his practice now covers product design, graphic design and art direction. For Viccarbe he designed Nagi, an armchair family whose name means calm waters in Japanese. The design sets out to express that calm, with a generous backrest that adds comfort in shared and collaborative spaces; it is intended as a place to think, rest and relax. Nagi is offered in two seat heights, with arms suited to reading or working, and in low and high backrest versions, the latter with a headrest.
