Reconstructing Spatial Elements
MUI means in its natural state, stripped of all artifices.
MULA means symbolic of diversity, variety, and individuality.
Throughout our years in business, LIXIL has observed people’s lifestyles and created rich, comfortable spaces that are suited to people’s daily lives.
Today, people’s standards and values about their homes are diversifying at a dizzying rate.
Clinically extrapolating from existing concepts is no longer enough. We must dig deeper to identify people’s fundamental values.
This exhibition showcases LIXIL’s mission to explore those values and find a new direction amid this era of immense diversity.
Instead of homogeneity and uniformity, we are embracing MUI in the spaces we create,
shattering our past ideas about spaces and building new ones in their place.
We are probing the essence of the key elements that make up spaces and identifying the value that they can hold.
Through this process, we have created installations with shapes and textures outside the boxes we have always known.
These installations offer blank spaces, ambiguity, where each viewer’s imagination can be unleashed.
The materials used in this exhibition are environmentally friendly materials that are used in actual LIXIL products.
Their environmental value is complemented by tasteful beauty that plays an important role in the spaces we create.
Step into a world where MUI and MULA intermingle
and prepare to conceptualize spaces in a whole new way.
PRODUCT
DESIGNER
The project began with the freer, more flexible ideas of in-house LIXIL designers to the use of diverse materials and techniques, breaking from conventional concepts to explore the question of what constitutes essential value for the user. Focusing on key spatial elements—the floor, the wall, the ceiling—and introducing the concept of MULA, new value is created when uniform, standardized space is transcended. We invite you to take a look at the design-centered challenges that LIXIL is embracing next.
ACCESS
Dates
Oct. 31 (Fri) – Nov. 9 (Sun), 2025
Hours
10:00-19:00
(Opening day: 10:00 – 12:00 opening ceremony/
12:00 – 17:00 open to public;
Closing day: 10:00 – 16:00, last entry 15:00)
Location
DESIGNART GALLERY
MEDIA DEPARTMENT TOKYO
19-3 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
EVENT
TALK SHOW
From left, Yutaka Haga, LIXIL; Takayuki Inoue, LIXIL; Yuko Nagayama, Yuko Nagayama & Associates
Architect Yuko Nagayama and LIXIL discuss the concept behind the MUINIMULA installation exhibit. We delve into Nagayama’s view on future architecture and
explore the new spatial values envisioned by the LIXIL design team, asking what the key questions are when contemplating the architecture of tomorrow.
Speakers:
Yuko Nagayama, senior registered architect and founder of Yuko Nagayama & Associates
http://www.yukonagayama.co.jp/
Yutaka Haga, LIXIL Corporation, Senior vice president and Leader of Design & Brand Japan
Takayuki Inoue, LIXIL Corporation, Leader of Design & Brand Japan LHT Design Center
Date/Time: October 31 (Fri), 2025
16:50 – 17:40 (entry from 16:30)
Location: Kuwasawa Design School, Main Bldg. 1F (1-4-17 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
NOVELTY PRODUCTS
THE CUTLERY REST
THE MULTI-USE TRAY
・THE CUTLERY REST
Our line of cutlery rests is crafted with LIXIL aluminum extrusion molding technology.
We take aluminum used for construction and put it through an extruder to fill universal shapes, like cylinders, triangles, trapezoids, squares, and
hexagons.
Explore the different experience the comes from resting your chopsticks, fork, or spoon on each unique shape.
・THE MULTI-USE TRAY
We turned LIXIL's unique materials from the world of construction to the crafting of multi-use trays.
Three distinct proprietary LIXIL materials, each with its own unique properties, are highlighted for a totally sensory experience.
Use as trays or coasters and feel the differences up close.
SUSTAINABLE
MATERIALS
The environmentally friendly materials featured in the exhibition not only reduce environmental impact, but play an important role in creating beautiful designs that appeal to the senses.
revia
A recycled material combining previously difficult-to-repurpose waste plastic with waste wood.
Almost any waste plastic can be used, reducing CO2 emissions generated during burning* and contributing to better recycling of plastic
waste.
* CO2 emissions generated during burning are reduced by 1.93 tons per 1 ton of revia.
PremiAL
Recycled low-carbon aluminum.
Recycled aluminum is used as the raw material*1, slashing CO2 emissions during the production process. PremiAL was Japan's first
product*2 to be successfully mass-produced entirely from recycled aluminum.
*1 Different ratios of recycled aluminum are used depending on the series.
*2 According to research by LIXIL in March 2024.
textone
A ceramic material designed from naturally occurring materials* that would otherwise be burned, such as rice chaff and waste paper.
An initiative is also underway to transform black tiles from houses that were destroyed by the Noto Earthquake into new building materials and construct
buildings from these.
* These materials account for 15% of the product's weight.
CONTACT
Please direct media inquiries to:
MAIL : pr@lixil.com