Introducing Nawabari

A BoConcept + BIG collaboration

With a shared Danish design tradition and ambition to democratise great design, BoConcept has partnered with global architects BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group - to launch its exclusive “Nawabari” Collection.

The collection design, led by Partner and Head of BIG Products Jakob Lange, is inspired by an ancient Japanese art form of binding with ropes to forge close bonds. Nawa means rope in Japanese and the term “Nawabari” traditionally translates as stretching rope.

“When starting out with this collection we were looking for a new way of expressing furniture”, says Lange. “We were interested in the forms that are created when a material is bound with rope. The result is these sculptural organic shapes that become the core of this furniture family.”

Transforming social spaces

Nawabari collection

Combining BoConcept’s simplicity and elegance with BIG’s future-thinking aesthetic, Nawabari is designed to bring people together and transform shared spaces. Its versatile design gives you the opportunity to create a comfortable lounge, a space for restoration or stylish break out area. Comprising two sofa options, an armchair, two coffee tables and two sized pouffes, Nawabari collection can be used individually as standout pieces or grouped together to create a standalone area.

About BIG

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group - is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Shenzhen and Los Angeles-based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers, and inventors. Led by Ingels, BIG has changed the face of architecture on a global scale – transforming the shape of what is possible.

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Professional toolkit

The collection can be customised to meet the specific needs of each individual project. Discover our toolkit for interior designers and architects containing the full product overview, fabric selection, sustainability credentials, 3D files, and more, to start planning your Nawabari project now.

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The art of connection

These statement seating forms create physical spaces to bring people together and make new connections. Exploring the intersection between work, life and play, these contemporary pieces are equally as showstopping in a hotel lobby and gallery as they are in a residential space or open plan office.

Jakob Lange

"We were interested in the new forms that are created when a material is bound with rope."

Meet studio BIG

Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine, visionary architect Bjarke Ingels has designed and completed award-winning buildings globally and redefined how we live in the process. His partner and Head of BIG Products, Jakob Lange has been instrumental in many of BIG’s most high-profile buildings and technology projects, such as Copenhill, an innovative waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen that doubles as a ski slope.

Get to know BIG

BIG designers talk about the inspiration behind the Nawabari colleciton.

Professional toolbox

Product overview

The collection can be customised to meet the specific needs of each individual project. It comprises two sofa sizes available at two heights, a chair, two sizes of coffee table, and two pouffes.

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Fabric selection

Upholstered with Gabriel’s wool-effect Blend fabric*, available in six pre-defined colours which beautifully enhance the sensorial design. Nawabari is also available across the BoConcept fabric offering.

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