It's 100 years since the Bauhaus art and design school first opened in Weimar, Germany, and the new Muji flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district is as good a venue as any to hold an anniversary exhibition celebrating the values of simple, affordable modernist design.

Though sadly not a major retrospective, the exhibition comprises a modest number of archive photographs by artist and designer Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), three of her iconic ashtray designs and other examples of household items by Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900-90), Marcel Breuer (1902-81), Wolfgang Tumpel (1903-78) and Theodor Bogler (1897-1968).

This is combined with another small exhibition on the evolution of the mass-produced chair, which features the Thonet No. 14 design, also known as the "bistro chair" and originally created by Michael Thonet in 1859. A contemporary variant of Thonet's steam-bent curved wood design sells in Muji shops today. Several other instantly familiar chairs make an appearance, such as Breuer's low chair made from tubular steel, sometimes called the "Wassily" after the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), and Danish designer Verner Panton's curvy S Chair, the first chair design to use molded plastic.