Snug Chair by Australian designer Dennis Abalos. It was a recent comment that pointed me to Dennis Abalos, while suggesting Japanese Architects Naruse Inokuma had copied their design of Dennis. I would doubt that. Certainly the design of both chairs have some similarities, but in my view not to an extent it is a shameless copy.
For comparision below the chair by Naruse Inokuma.
Looks like Karim Rashid copied the Snug chair too! How funny! Similar style cues Just simplified with no base. You be the judge:
http://www.contemporist.com/2010/11/30/unplanned-brutalism-by-karim-rashid/
Richard, yes, they all look very much alike, like they could be chairs from one collection or something… I guess sometimes ideas are just there in the air and different people seem to catch them at around the same time.