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Apato brings Japan's finest furniture brands to Australia. The confluence of master craftsmanship and innovative Japanese design.

Apato brings to Australia the finest furniture brands by master craftsmen and designers in Japan. Our exclusive collection features an impressive line-up of products designed by leading designers and emerging young talents and carefully manufactured using both age-old techniques and modern technology to ensure quality and ergonomic comfort.

21/10/2026

Ballett Lounge Chair by Tomoyuki Matsuoka for Nissin Furniture Crafters.

On its own it’s a personal lounge chair. Line up two or three and it becomes one long sofa. The pieces gather or spread out as you need, so the room can change with you, and with the household as it grows or shrinks.

Ballett is Nissin’s 80th anniversary model, made in Hida Takayama, Gifu, where the company has built furniture since 1946.

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13/10/2026

Uni Master by Kai Kristiansen for 宮崎椅子製作所　Miyazaki Chair Factory .

The Uni Master grew out of the Uni Senior (4110), a Kristiansen design that Miyazaki brought back and refined. The arms are wide and almost flat, so there’s somewhere to rest your elbows long after dinner is over.

The frame comes in walnut or oak, each in a range of finishes. Since 2023 it has also been made with a papercord seat. The cord wraps around the whole seat frame, where leather and fabric sit inside it. Leather and fabric versions are available too.

Made in Tokushima, Japan.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
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06/10/2026

Room to discover. Our new Collingwood showroom, written up by Jan Henderson for Indesign Magazine.

Thank you, Jan. You saw what we hoped people would feel walking in: calm, order, and space to find a piece on your own terms. It means a lot to have the room read so closely and so generously.

Thank you to Mark Simpson, Damien Mulvihill and the team at DesignOffice, who turned a plain white shell into a showroom of framed views and quiet sightlines. Deep eggplant, chocolate and mustard instead of timber, so the furniture carries the wood. A tokonoma for single pieces. A chair library beside the stair, so you meet each chair one at a time.

Thank you to Haydn Cattach Photography for the photographs, and to studio HENRY WILSON for the door handle you touch on the way in.

Level one comes next.

Full story via the link in our bio.

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17/09/2026

A-S01 sofa and A-DT02 dining table by Keiji Ashizawa for Karimoku Case. N-SW01 swivel chair by Norm Architects.

House in Yatsugatake. A single-storey retreat at 1,500 metres on the Yatsugatake plateau, built for family, friends and guests to gather in across the year.

The house bends around its garden so that every room opens straight to the outside. Low openings beneath the eaves hold the forest as one continuous horizontal band, and a skylight draws daylight deep into the plan. Existing trees were kept wherever they could be, so the architecture and the landscape run into one another rather than meeting at a line.

Look at what is in the rooms. The sofa was drawn for Kinuta Terrace. The dining table for Azabu Residence. The dining chair for a cafe in Shanghai, the side table for a cafe in Nagoya, the swivel chair for a hotel above Shinjuku. Five pieces made for five specific rooms, brought together in a forest and behaving as though they were always one set.

That is the argument for Karimoku Case in a sentence.

Specified by Keiji Ashizawa Design for House in Yatsugatake.

Available through APATO, Melbourne.

Project: KEIJI ASHIZAWA DESIGN
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Photography: Tomooki Kengaku

15/09/2026

Taliesin Wall Sconce. Frank Lloyd Wright for Yamagiwa.

In 1933 Wright was converting the old Hillside Home School gymnasium at Taliesin into a theatre, and he made a lamp for it. Rectangular boxes of solid wood, cantilevered off a spine, arranged the way branches and leaves arrange themselves.

He thought light coming through foliage was the most beautiful light there is.

So the boxes do not diffuse the lamp. They interrupt it. Light escapes in slots above and below, the wall takes the glare, and what reaches the room has already been softened twice.

Two sizes. Taliesin 2 is a single box and one shelf, 268 high. Taliesin 3 stacks three, 420 high.

Switched off, it still earns the wall.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
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14/09/2026

Hiroi Chair. Sam Hecht and Kim Colin for Ishinomaki Laboratory.

Wider than it is deep. 584 across, 357 front to back.

That proportion is the whole design. It carries the centre of gravity forward, which is what makes a chair this light sit steady, and it lets the seat slide under a counter without a fight.

Everything else is subtraction. Boards left at the dimension they arrived in. Screws on the surface, countersunk, not hidden. One steel tube bent to a single radius, doing the work of an entire back.

It arrives unfinished, in Japanese hiba or Kurikoma cedar. Finish it yourself, or leave it and let it mark.

Ishinomaki Laboratory began in 2011 in a town rebuilding after the tsunami, and sales of designs like this one help fund its free workshops.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
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08/09/2026

For your next project - CondeHouse since 1968.

One factory in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Everything CondeHouse makes comes out of it.

Hokkaido oak and ash account for about three quarters of their timber, and they have been planting those trees since 2000. Non-toxic glues and finishes throughout.

Hospitality, office, public. There is a dedicated contract range, made in the same factory, from the same timber as everything else they build.

Fifty-eight years of solid timber chairs is its own argument. Sit in one and you can feel where the money went.

Specifying something? Talk to us.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
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01/09/2026

Hinode Dressing Table by Monica Förster for Ariake.

Hinode means sunrise. Ariake means daybreak. The two names sit inside the same hour, which is the whole idea of the piece: a round mirror rising out of the tabletop like the sun coming up off the water.

The frame is ash, blackened with sumi, the Japanese ink ground from candle soot. Behind the mirror and inside the drawer, aizome indigo. You only find the blue when you open it.

Look at the drawer front. Fine horizontal slats, cut from solid, catching light the way a shoji screen does.

Made in Morodomi, Saga, by Legnatec and Hirata Chair. W1230 · D550 · H960. Natural oak, white oak, smoked oak or sumi ash.

Monica Förster’s first design for Ariake, shown at 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
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29/08/2026

Deck Chair + Ottoman. Koichi Futatsumata / 二俣公一 for 石巻工房 Ishinomaki Laboratory .

Ishinomaki Laboratory started in 2011, in a coastal city rebuilding after the tsunami. A public workshop where residents could make the furniture their town needed, beginning with benches for an outdoor cinema.

The Deck Chair, designed by Koichi Futatsumata in 2015, is the most structurally ambitious piece to come out of that lineage. It is still made from ordinary two-by-four timber and helical nails. Two crossed frames, a seat height of just 230mm, a long low recline. The ottoman repeats the same logic at half the length.

Nothing is concealed. Every board and every fixing sits on the surface where you can read it.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
6 Gipps Street, Collingwood.
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28/08/2026

NF-DT01 Dining Table. Norman Foster for Karimoku Case.

Foster built a small retreat on Martha’s Vineyard, opposite his own house, for friends of the Foster family and the Norman Foster Foundation. A mono-pitch roof, angled steel beams tied together with timber, the structural logic of an American barn. The furniture inside had to belong to it, so he designed that as well.

The NF Collection came out of that house. This is its dining table. Solid oak, a slim top, legs that swell into a soft radius where they meet it.

Look at the corner. The armrest of the NF-DC01 chair slides straight into that angle when the chair is pushed in, so the set closes up and reads as one object.

Three lengths: 1650, 2000 and 2400mm. Pure oak, smoked oak, or grain matte black.

Now at APATO, Melbourne.
6 Gipps Street, Collingwood.
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6 Gipps Street, Collingwood
Melbourne, VIC
3066

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5pm
Friday	9:30am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

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+61399398449

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http://apato.com.au/

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