Nendo

executed in 2008, this work is from an edition of 14

USA, Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, Modern by Design, June - August 2011
Israel, Design Museum Holon, The State of Things: Design and the 21st Century, March - May 2010
USA, New York, Museum of Arts and Design, Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo, October 2009 - January 2010
Japan, Tokyo, 21_21 Design Sight, XXIST Century Man, March - July 2008

21_21 Design Sight, XXIst century man, Tokyo, Japan, 2008, p. 55 and 82-85
The State of Things, Design and the 21st Century, Design Museum Holon, Israel, 2010, p. 125
Nendo Ghost Stories, Japan, 2010, p. 55
E. M. Alcorn, Decorative Arts and Design, Montreal, Canada, 2011, p. 345
F. Schulze, R. Klanten, Nendo 10/10, Berlin, Germany, 2013, p. 65-69

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Nendo  

Nendo is an internationally recognised design studio based in Japan.  Founded by Oki Sato (born in 1977), it established its Tokyo office in 2002 and the Milan office in 2005.  Oki Sato has an MA in Architecture from Waseda University, Tokyo.  Nendo, the firm, has won numerous awards, including Newsweek magazine’s The Top 100 Small Japanese Companies.  Its products have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and at the Milan Design Week.  Nendo is a very prolific studio, creating hundreds of products per year, ranging from interior design and architectural works, to product design and graphic design creations.  Widely-regarded furniture products include the Cabbage Chair, a response to Issey Miyake’s request to consider waste-bound materials from Miyake’s pleat-making process, the Scatter Shelf, made up of a series of intricate rectangles, and a lacquered version of the ubiquitous Cup Noodles container.  Nendo in Japanese means ‘clay’, which, in Sato’s words, ‘changes form, shape, and colour.’  Oki Sato has a keen focus on the storyline behind each work, stating that ‘it’s about what kind of story you can find behind the object…Whether it's a chair or a computer mouse, it’s all the same to me.’