A Soft Place to Land
Make room for the Asari Chair by Herman Miller—upholstered, ergonomic, and a delight to the senses. It provides the performance of a work chair, in a form that is as comfortable as it is beautiful. Get to know the new soft office seating.
Asari Chair by Herman Miller
Form, function—as one
Introducing Asari
Beauty in balance
A Study in Duality
Sculptural form and everyday function, upholstered and ergonomic, quiet and significant. Combined, it provides all the performance of an ergonomic work chair, in a form that is as comfortable as it is beautiful.
Naoto Fukasawa designed this chair with a clear goal:
To inspire joy and create a new form, ultimately becoming the next upholstered icon. Considering the relationship between person, environment, and chair, Fukasawa looked to the world around him as inspiration—beginning with its name. Japanese for “clam” (short neck clam, to be precise), Asari’s rounded edges and sculpted segments give an anthropomorphic character to the chair. The smooth and calming surfaces of river stones and symmetrical tiers of a macaron influenced the sculptured prototypes Fukasawa and team hand-built to represent their vision of the design.
In Perfect Harmony
To turn the designer’s sculpted vision and forms into reality, our development teams needed to create new ways of constructing a chair. To achieve the clean stitching and visuals and ensure the chair would meet our rigorous standards, the team devised new methods to craft the form. The result is a meticulously crafted chair design where every form, stitch, and curve is essential: a purely iconic piece of furniture.
Colorful Characters
To bring Fukasawa's sculptural vision to life and truly celebrate Asari’s form, we applied a considered approach to color called Color Flood. Evolving the dipped-in color approach used on other chairs, we carefully curated a palette of eight all-over hues to deliver character to the chair. This palette balances traditional shades like Black Leather, rich basics like Cocoa, and vibrant color pops like Marigold. Whether you choose one of the Color Flood options or a more traditional blended color option, Asari has the perfect character for your space.
