Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Mint Gallery in London, Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo talks about Growing Vases, an installation of hand-blown glass lights with the blower’s pipe still attached. Watch the movie »
London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of an installation by Japanese designers Nendo at the headquarters of design brand Established & Sons during the London Design Festival this week.
Nendo attached square crumpled fragments of London maps to the showroom walls, arranged in dense clusters that diffuse towards the edges like a city fog hanging around the collection.
The project with Nendo is the first in a series of collaborations under the title My London and coincides with the launch of the brand’s seventh catalogue, which features photographs of the collection in London locations by Peer Lindgreen.
The London Design Festival continues until 25 September – see all our coverage of the event in our special category.
See all our stories about Nendo here and all our stories about Established & Sons here.
Here are some more details from Established & Sons:
The first presentation of ‘My London’ during the London Design Festival sees Japanese architects and design studio, Nendo interpreting their vision of creative London in an installation at the Established & Sons Wenlock Road headquarters and showroom.
Inspired by iconic images of the ‘city of fog’, Nendo has created an ethereal floor-to-ceiling wall installation. Incorporating hundreds of pieces of 16 randomly selected small maps of London, the ‘fog’ engulfs the cavernous space of the Established & Sons showroom. The textured pieces of the maps represent small memories of London captured in one space and are illuminated to create a soft and magical image of the city. The fog also surrounds selected pieces from the current collection and new 2011 products which are placed on plinths at low heights to enhance the flowing quality of the space.
Established & Sons will celebrate the creative influence of its home city with the launch of a new initiative ‘My London’, a series of global activities which will look to the heart of London and the creative minds who live, meet and work there. A selection of London-based talents and international names from the worlds of design, art and architecture have been invited to work on collaborations, installations and objects that define their idea of the city.
“London is the world’s epicentre: an international hub for high-finance and the leading authority in the creative fields. Established & Sons could only have been born, raised and nurtured in this great city. To focus on London for the design festival and to champion the city at such a poignant time in its history makes perfect sense. We want to re-own what London stands for, to celebrate its internationalism, creativity, eclecticism and humour and remind everyone that being a part of London remains something to be proud of.” Angad Paul – Chairman, Established & Sons.
The first presentation of ‘My London’ will be during the London Design Festival with Japanese architects and design studio, Nendo interpreting the vision of creative London in an installation at the Established & Sons Wenlock Road headquarters and showroom.
“Since its inception, Established & Sons has been at the forefront of international design, giving both renowned and up-and-coming designers an equal platform to create beautiful and innovative products. London is a melting pot of cultures and ideas; coherently with this view Established & Sons have invited Nendo to interpret their vision of this creative city during London Design Festival.’’ Maurizio Mussati – Chief Executive Officer, Established & Sons.
Within the ‘My London’ installation, Nendo will incorporate designs from the Established & Sons current collection as well as new 2011 products including Cape, Dame, Quilt, Surface Table, Revolver and Pour.
‘‘It is a great honour to collaborate with Established & Sons. We have admired the brand’s creative style for many years now and respect their attitude towards encouraging and challenging designers to push for the technically new and exciting. A strong cultural diversity exists in London and we love the great balance of the architectural old and new in the city. We hope to recreate this feeling in our design for the ‘My London’ exhibition.’’ Oki Sato – Nendo.
The ‘My London’ installation will coincide with the launch of the new Established & Sons No.7 catalogue, which will depict lighting, furniture and accessories photographed within London-based locations, reflecting Established & Sons enduring commitment to present design that is delightful, liveable and yet beyond the ordinary.
Visual arts and design publisher Phaidon will also have a reading space at Established & Sons Wenlock Road for the duration of London Design Festival, which will mark the start of an ongoing collaboration.
Opening Times
Monday 19 September – Tuesday 20 September 10.00 – 18:00
Wednesday 21 – Thursday 22 September 9.30 – 16.30
Friday 23 September – Sunday 25 September 9.30 – 17.30
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| Established & Sons and Venini | Established & Sons in Milan 2010 | Established & Sons: Elevating Design |
Japanese designers Nendo will present this display unit with shelves that are only 5mm thick at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London next month. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen.
The Scatter Shelf is made of glossy acrylic sheets, arranged in a grid formation from the front but a staggered configuration from the side.
The glossy surface slices up reflections when viewed from an angle and scatters them in all directions.
The piece will also be on show at Friedman Benda in New York from 10 November.
See all our stories about Nendo here.
Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.
Here are some more details from Nendo:
Nendo will show a new piece “scatter shelf” at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London during the Frieze Art Fair, and Friedman Benda in NY from November 10th.
The scatter shelf is composed of 5mm black acrylic shelves in a grid form, stacked in three layers and slightly displaced. The resulting shelving unit is not only structurally strong but creates a visual effect in which objects placed on the shelves appear as though caught in a spider’s web when viewed from the front.
When viewed on an angle, the glossy acrylic face creates a series of reflections within the shelves, making the ‘opaque’ acrylic appear to be transparent.
The diffused reflections caused by the ‘surfaces’ shine and form also separates and scatters the view behind the shelving unit, creating a completely kaleidoscopic effect.
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| Thin Black Lines by Nendo | International Triennale of Kogei by Nendo | 24 ISSEY MIYAKE Shop by Nendo |
Japanese designers Nendo will draw black and white floorboards that appear to flow around plinths for their solo show at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute later this month.
Designed to showcase their Thin Black Lines and Dancing Squares projects, the exhibition will be divided into two rooms – one with black drawings on white and the other with white on black.
The walls of the second room will be curved as though visitors are walking through the image in a fish-eye lens.
See all our stories about Nendo here.
Photographs are by Daici Ano.
The information below is from Nendo:
Nendo’s solo exhibition in Taiwan will be held by the end of August.
“Nendo’s solo exhibition” design concept
A solo show at the Taiwanese government-sponsored National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute featuring two collections.
‘Thin black lines’ is a collection of furniture formed from ‘still black’, so we wanted to use ‘active black on white’ for the exhibition space. The drawings on the floor flow like river water around the exhibition stands.
‘Dancing squares’ is a collection based on the concept of ‘active white’, so we wanted a space that expressed the idea of ‘still black on white’.
Our room-sized sketch, affixed to walls and floor, uses a fish-eye lens-like effect as though viewers are seeing it through a tiny water drop.
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| Anna by ZMIK | Leo Burnett Office by Ministry of Design | Paperboard Architecture by D’art for VDP |
Japanese designers Nendo have combined a USB stick with a giant paperclip.
The Data Clip for Japanese electronics brand Elecom can be attached to paper documents or clipped together for easy storage.
See all our stories about Nendo here and more stationery here.
Photographs are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.
Here are some more details from the designers:
Data Clip for Elecom
A USB stick in the shape of a paperclip. It can clip to a stack of documents, business cards or memos for handing data to a colleague or friend, or connect to other Data Clips for storage. A design that aims for a new relationship between daily life and digital data.
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| Otokurage by Nendo | Ceramic Speaker by Nendo | Thin Black Lines by Nendo |
Avec plus que 4000 “chapeaux fantômes” flottant, cette installation dans le Spiral Garden de Tokyo est très réussie. Une oeuvre créée par l’agence Nendo rentrant dans le cadre de la retrospective sur l’oeuvre d’Akio Hirata. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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Hats by Japanese milliner Akio Hirata appear to float between the floor and ceiling in this installation by Japanese designers Nendo.
The 4000 hats are suspended from invisible threads, surrounding visitors and appearing to hover like ghosts.
The majority of the hand-made hats are white, interspersed with the occasional coloured or patterned piece.
The installation forms part of a retrospective of Hirata Akio’s work at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo.
More projects by Nendo on Dezeen »
More exhibition installations on Dezeen »
Photography is by Daici Ano.
Here are some more details from Nendo:
“Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats”
The graphic and exhibition design for the first major Japanese retrospective of internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio’s seventy years of work. For the exhibition space, we wanted to make Hirata’s hats stand out.
The mass-produced non-woven fabric hats we created for the space are the antithesis of Hirata’s carefully handmade hats, and bring them into sharp relief through dramatic contrast.
Hirata oversaw the shape of these hats, which float and stream through the exhibition like ghosts or shells of the real hats exhibited. Some are exhibition stands; others become walls, ceilings and diffusers to scatter light through the space. Flooded with roughly 4000 of these ‘ghost hats’ as though shrouded in a cloud, the exhibition space softly invites visitors inside. There, they find not clear-cut paths to follow but an environment in which they can wander and discover Hirata’s creations as they like, as a way of physically experiencing the creative freedom that underlies Hirata’s work.
Exhibition Information
June 15th – July 3rd, 2011 at Spiral Garden
Address: 5-6-23 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
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| 2D/3D Chairs by Yoichi Yamamoto for Issey Miyake | Contemporary Craftsmanship by CuldeSac for Hermès | 24 Issey Miyake Shop at Shibuya Parco by Nendo |
Le studio japonais Nendo a pensé et conçu le design pour ce magasin de chaussures “Puma” à Tokyo. En acier, avec des escaliers en bois, la boutique a été imaginée pour donner un effet de mouvement et procurer une ambiance proche de la vision de la marque Puma. Plus dans la suite.
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Coloured cables encircle the cases of these computer mice by Japanese designers Nendo.
Called Rinkak, the design for electronics company Elecom creates an outline round the product like a drawn line.
Photographs are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.
Here are some more details from Nendo:
We designed a computer mouse “rinkak” for a Japanese company ELECOM
“rinkak” design concept
In Japanese, rinkak refers to an object’s outline against its background.
The cable that snakes out from the computer becomes the rinkak of a mouse, like a quickly-sketched freehand drawing. The mouse becomes the background, and the cable – until now a supporting actor – takes to the main stage.
This product will be sold in Japan from end of June. And planning to sell Internationally soon.
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| Otokurage by Nendo | Ceramic Speaker by Nendo | Thin Black Lines by Nendo |
Japanese designers Nendo have designed these three wooden bells containing mechanisms from children’s musical boxes.
Called Bell-orgel, the series is made from Japanese cypress in three shapes.
One is shaped like a hand-bell and stops playing music when laid down, while the upright version is wound by turning the bell on its base.
Nendo designed the pieces for Isetan department store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, where they were customised by 57 designers and studios.
See also: Pyggy Bank by Nendo for Isetan
Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.
Here are some more details from the designers:
We designed a music box “bell-orgel” for a Japanese department store Isetan collaborated with more-trees
“bell-orgel” Design Concept
Wooden music boxes designed for the Isetan department store’s ‘bell-orgel collection’ project,launched with the cooperation of composer Sakamoto Ryuichi’s moretrees initiative, which promotes the protection of forests as absorbers of CO2.
We designed the music box, which was then decorated by 57 different designers and design groups. The music boxes are made of Japanese cypress (hinoki) harvested as part of sustainable forest management practices.
As a familiar form, the bell shape also invites visitors to touch the music box and enjoy the feel of the wood surface. We were also aware that the combination of form and material would soften the metallic sound of the chimes.
The music box comes in three varieties: a hand bell, a standing bell and a hanging bell.
The hand bell is designed to stop playing its melody when laid on its side. Turning the bell on the standing bell winds the music box mechanism, making it play.
In both music boxes, the ‘bell’ itself functions as a switch, making a connection to the traditional way of ringing bells.
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| Music Cage by Nendo | Deptford Design Market Challenge | Slightly Windy by José Ferrufino |
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