The ultimate monograph on one of the world's most creative, prolific, and legendary multidisciplinary design studios nendo's extensive, idiosyncratic body of work flows seamlessly across disciplines, and is executed in every medium imaginable - from paper clips to watches, shoes, chocolates, glassware, and furniture, all the way up to store interiors and freestanding architecture. Featuring more than 1,000 images that trace the studio's evolution and prolific output over a 15-year period, this visually rich and fascinating survey offers exclusive insight into the playful, simple, enigmatic, but always expectation-confounding designs from one of the industry's biggest names. This volume is organized into ten chronological chapters and features a catalog of works from nendo's vast archive, including work for such iconic brands as Capellino, Kartell, Thonet, Kenzo, Camper, and Louis Vuitton. The recipient of numerous awards, nendo was named number one of Dezeen's Designers Hot List in 2016, winner of the Elle Decor Design Awards - and Designer of the Year at Maison et Objet in 2015, and Designer of the Year by Elle Decor in 2012.

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Arts & Photography

Nendo

Decorative Arts & Design

Phaidon Press

Elegant, modern, subtle, and playful: the epitome of contemporary design from Japan that is also setting the tone for design’s future on the global scene. There are few design studios worldwide that can deliver projects of such consistently high quality as the Japanese studio Nendo. Expertly melding architecture and interior, product, and graphic design with sculpture and installation, Nendo’s work is both impressively clear and intriguingly sophisticated. The functionality and unobtrusiveness of their projects is in line with established Japanese design traditions, yet their lightheartedness and humor is also inspired by the country’s pop culture. In this context, the name Nendo, Japanese for modeling clay, is indicative of their skill at playing with the fundamental properties of objects. The studio, which was founded by Oki Sato in Tokyo in 2002, has now firmly established itself on the global design scene and routinely wins international awards. The magazine Wallpaper*, for example, celebrated Nendo as “Designer of the Year 2012.” Nendo’s work has been shown at a range of galleries and museums around the world, at design events and festivals, such as the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, and in commissioned projects for notable clients such as Bisazza and Cappellini. This comprehensive monograph presents a striking selection of Nendo’s astonishingly multifaceted work including vibrant store concepts, mystically inspired exhibition spaces, sculptural furniture pieces, home accessories, and design objects. Regardless of how diverse the included styles appear to be, they all give the reader a sense of where the future of design is heading.

Nendo: 10/10

Graphic Design

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Nendo Works 2007-2010

Hidden - Unveiling Japanese Design (curated By Nendo)

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