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# The Amazing Canvas Chair that Hangs on Your Wall
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-amazing-canvas-chair-that-hangs-on-your-wall/
- Published: 2013-04-19T01:33:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:29.000Z
- Description: Designer Naoki Ono, founder of Tokyo-based YOY design studio, presented this extraordinary "Canvas" chair at Salone Satellite during last week's Milan Design Week 2013 (aka Salone Internazionale del Mobile).
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Design, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![The Canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chair-640.gif)

The Canvas chair by Tokyo-based YOY (images via designboom, GIF by Hyperallergic)

Designer Naoki Ono, founder of Tokyo-based YOY design studio, presented this extraordinary “Canvas” chair at [Salone Satellite](http://www.cosmit.it/en/?ref=hyperallergic.com) during last week’s Milan Design Week 2013 (aka Salone Internazionale del Mobile). When not hanging like a conventional canvas, the Canvas chair can be used simply by leaning it against a wall.

The frame is constructed of wood and aluminum and covered by an elastic fabric printed with the texture of canvas and a drawing of a more traditional chair. While sitting on the Canvas may not look ideal for long periods of time, it certainly seems perfect for rooms where space is tight.

![canvas-chairs-2-a-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chairs-2-a-640.jpg)

![canvas-chairs-2-b-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chairs-2-b-640.jpg)

![canvas-chairs-2-c-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chairs-2-c-640.jpg)

![canvas-chairs-2-d-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chairs-2-d-640.jpg)

![canvas-chairs-2-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/canvas-chairs-2-640.jpg)

This is the first clever design solution for multitasking objects YOY design studio has designed. Behold their book planter:

![The book planter (via designboom)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/yoybook01-a.jpg)

The book planter (via designboom)

![yoybook01-b](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/yoybook01-b.jpg)

![yoybook01-c](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/04/yoybook01-c.jpg)