Uchiwa Lounge Chair is designed by Doshi Levien for HAY — a lounge chair inspired by the Japanese uchiwa fan whose distinctive circular form defines the chair's primary and immediately recognisable silhouette. Doshi Levien's design practice brings together Nipa Doshi's Indian cultural background and Jonathan Levien's British design training, producing furniture that fuses craft traditions, cultural storytelling, and contemporary industrial design in ways that give their pieces a cultural and intellectual depth that is unusual in furniture design. The Uchiwa's circular form is rooted in the specific cultural reference of the Japanese fan while producing a lounge chair of contemporary practicality and strong spatial presence.

The circular seat and back create a chair of strong and complete formal identity — a piece that reads as a fully resolved and self-contained shape from any angle, with the circular form providing a sense of spatial enclosure and comfort that is particularly appropriate to a lounge chair designed for relaxed, extended seated use. The Uchiwa is available in different upholstery and base options to suit different residential and hospitality interior directions, and a Revit file is available alongside the 2D and 3D formats, making the Uchiwa Lounge Chair straightforward to specify and coordinate within BIM-based architectural and hospitality project workflows. The chair's strong formal identity makes it an appropriate specification for design-conscious interiors where individual furniture pieces contribute meaningfully to the spatial narrative.

The Uchiwa Lounge Chair is well suited to residential living rooms, hotel room lounge settings, and hospitality environments where a compact lounge chair of distinctive circular form, cultural design reference, and genuine seated comfort is required. Its Doshi Levien design provenance and the chair's bold formal identity make it an appropriate specification for design-conscious interiors where individual furniture pieces are expected to contribute meaningfully to the spatial narrative and the overall cultural and material character of the room.

Available as a 2D DWG drawing, 3D model and Revit file.