Dean Maltz’s Modular Seating

Dean Maltz has gotten a lot of recent attention for his collaborations with Shigeru Ban Architects on projects like the Nomadic Museum, which will visit ten cities in the next five years, and a paper arch at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At ICFF, Maltz introduced his first signature collection, Moon, a series of modular seating components—a flat ottoman, a corner slope, a full back slope, and a full back and arm slope—made from pressed plywood bent into fluid convex and concave shapes.

“Moon is perfect as a seating bench for an art gallery or a museum,” says the designer, who also showed a version of the pieces in white Naugahyde. Maltz has been designing furniture since the 1980s, and in the years since has designed best-selling pieces for Dellarobbia, Dune, and Natucci.