Apr 28, 2016

Phillips

Apr 28, 2016

Phillips

Apr 17, 2016

Sotheby's

Mar 31, 2016

Sotheby's

Mar 31, 2016

Sotheby's

Mar 31, 2016

Sotheby's

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.’

Mar 31, 2016

Sotheby's

Oct 15, 2015

Dorotheum

Aug 25, 2015

Christie's

nendo (Japanese, 20th Century) Thin Black Lines (7400mm table) enameled steel and glass 19 3/4 x 35 x 35 in. (50.2 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm.) Executed in 2010.

Jul 28, 2015

Christie's

nendo (Japanese, 20th Century) Thin Black Lines (7400mm table) enameled steel and glass assemblage 19 3/4 x 35 x 35 1/4 in. (50.2 x 88.9 x 89.5 cm.) Executed in 2010.