More news from Nendo (do these guys ever sleep?): The Japanese designers recently concluded a solo show at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute in which they turned part of the place into a giant trompe ...READ»
Oki Sato, the low-profile principal of the Japanese firm Nendo, is the design world's James Franco, a man who can seemingly do just about anything. We’ve covered a sliver of the architect’s body of work at Co.Design: material ...READ»
The master illusionists over at Nendo are up with a new furniture concept that could turn even the dullest living room into a giant work of op art. Scatter Shelf is a towering bookshelf (yes, bookshelves can look like art!) with thin ...READ»
Perhaps no other design studio can deliver both disarming cuteness and poetic minimalism with more mastery than Nendo. A couple of days ago, we brought you the Japanese firm's computer mouse with a detachable USB “tail”; ...READ»
God bless the Japanese, who have succeeded in making nearly everything on the planet more adorable. And now they've really done it. They've managed to make a mouse -- yes, that little white utilitarian computer mouse you're clutching ...READ»
Many fashionable women have become famous for their hats -- from Jackie O. and her demure pillboxes to the style icon Isabella Blow and her outrageous concoctions. And yet few, if any, designers have become household names for their ...READ»
Nendo, one of the most talented Japanese design firms working today, has sent us images of a table that'll debut at the Milan furniture fair in a couple weeks, and it's a stunner -- a triumph of optical illusion. It looks like wood ...READ»
Ten leading international designers were paired with nine industrial design and furniture producers and handed the equivalent of the crystal company's Bedazzler.READ»
Tokyo Baby Cafe--a mother-and-baby shop set to open in Japan--is somewhat redolent of Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland, with its pale blue-and-gray color scheme. Add the fact
that it caters for both adults and children, and all ...READ»
Oki Sato, who heads the firm Nendo, is one brightest talents in a new generation of Japanese minimalist designers. His designs have seldom been seen in the U.S.--but that changes with "Ghost Stories: New Works from Nendo," a new show at New York's Museum of Art and design which runs through January 10.READ»
Good designers have a way of fashioning surprises from familiar materials. Here's three new projects--all of which elevate metal into something wonderfully strange--that made us sit up.
Tim Parson's zooms in on materials with a ...READ»
One thing you'll notice at the Milan Furniture Fair is how totally international the designs appear---and I don't necessarily mean that as a compliment. The designs, and the designers could have come from anywhere. Modernist ...READ»
We've covered the current trend for wobbly, mottled design at Milan. But the dominant aesthetic is still decidedly minimal: Stripped down and super clean, a perfect fit for that cavernous, $10 million downtown loft. These designs ...READ»
