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Here are some pictures from yesterdays event. Thank you very much for all guests who joined us and basketandbelly for wonderful collaboration. It is very nice to mix the products at the exhibition.
Please feel free to take contact us if you want to see the products by your own eyes.

We have gotten 100 likes on this page!
We are planning to celebrate it with special offers. Coming soon!

More products have arrived at showroom at Fredensborgveien 15A 0177 Oslo

Here you can see good combination of Japanese modern design and European antique design provided by our partner Modern Tribute

Maru.no is featured at siteinspire.com. Thanks again to the guys at Lundgren+Lindqvist for a great job on webshop design and first class follow up! Thank you all for your likes :-)

Modern Tribute: 20th century furniture shop, Fredensborgenveien 15A Oslo, where MARU has a small showroom will join the Saturday night open event. Please come and check it out!
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Den 15. september feirer vi de nye butikkene som nylig har
flyttet inn i Fredensborgveien. Det blir åpent hus hos oss alle fra kl 16. etterfulgt av hygge på Den Godé Café fra kl.20

We have opened a new showroom at Oslo center! It is a part of Antique furnuture shop Modern Tribute. There you can see our products by your eyes and confirm the quality. And of course you can buy them as well. It is very interesting to see the combination of European iconic furniture and Japanese modern design products. Address: Fredensborgveien 15A 0177 Oslo
Opening hours: Thursday 12-20, Fri 12-18, Sat 12-16. I will attach some photo soon!

We have gotten new lamp series designed by Tani Toshiyuki to our showroom and webshop. This beautiful lamp is made with Japanese traditional craft technique called MAGEWAPPA, bending Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) in boilling water. This technique made it possible to realize this modern design with exellent curve! Check it out and visit us to have a look at the showroom in Fornebu!
http://maru.no/lamp-furniture-wall-clock/kazaguruma.html

Maru - Kazaguruma lamp KAZAGURUMA means windmill in Japanese. This specific lamps in WAPPA SHADE series use Magewappa techniq which is one of the Japanese traditinal ways of bending the wood in

Now MARU blog (In English) is on live and integrated to our webshop! Here I write the backgrounds of products, my interests and activities through architectural practice Yoshida Design AS, and reports from Japan trip. http://blog.maru.no/

Maru Blog This three days trip was full of inspiration both by eyes and tongue (incredibly excellent food in Paris!) and I will write about them at another time.

Now two paper made Hat & Cap has joined our collection. They are designed by Naoto Fukazawa, (well known industrial designer, especially for many MUJI products) and very light as 65g and 40g. Garanteed to get attantion at the town when you go out with them:)
http://maru.no/bags-hats-stationary/siwa-tyrolean-hat.html
http://maru.no/bags-hats-stationary/siwa-ivy-cap.html

Maru - SIWA tyrolean hat The Japanese paper (washi) maker ONAO and industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa have teamed together to create the SIWA series. Fukasawa discovered that the special texture