Photographer: Takumi Ota

“Key to style” is the women’s fashion floor within the main building of the Seibu Shibuya department store. It is connected by a walk-way with the “COMPOLUX” floor on the third floor of the annex building that we designed in 2013, and has a more casual feel by targeting the young customer. We wanted to create a dynamic setting while maintaining the connection with the “COMPOLUX” area that was inspired by a cozy European park. Hence, we decided on the “mobile amusement park” that is held at parks as the design theme. (more…)

Photographer: Takumi Ota

Siam Discovery is The Biggest Arena of Lifestyle Experiments packed with exhilarating experiences that say ‘come play with us’ to visitors. People can come in to experiment and discover what they like and what expresses their own identity best.

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Tod’s Omotesando 6F by nendo; Photo © Daici Ano

We designed new furnishings for the sixth-floor hall of the Tod’s store on Omotesando, in Tokyo. The open, airy space is surrounded by large windows, so we designed frame-like furnishings reminiscent of the buildings visible outside, jostling together in various shapes and sizes. (text by nendo)

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Siam Discovery – The Exploratorium by Nendo, photo: Takumi Ota

Among the exciting debuts at Siam Discovery is a new Loft store with a design concept that is being utilised for the first time in the world and which is conceived by world-renowned designer Nendo and Loft Japan’s designers. (text by Nendo)

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Border Table by Nendo, photo: Hiroshi Iwasaki, Masaya Yoshimura

Created for a solo exhibition at the Eye of Gyre gallery in Omotesando, Tokyo, Nendo’s Border Tables are a series of unusual tables that consist of a 5mm square metal rod with an equally diminutive tabletop (with a radius of only 100mm) attached to it.

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‘Single-curve’ collection chair by Nendo for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, photo: Joakim Blockstrom

Only a single location is bent rather than the overall structure in the ‘Single-curve’ collection by design studio Nendo for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, maintaining the brand’s trademark bentwood feature.

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BbyB. Chocolate Shop Tokyo by Nendo, photo: Daici Ano

BbyB., the chocolate shop by Antwerp-based, two-Michelin star chef Bart Desmidt has opened its first overseas shop in Tokyo designed by studio Nendo.

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Glider sofa by Ron Arad, the version displayed at iSaloni will be upholstered with Blur, a shaded fabric produced exclusively for Moroso by FEBRIK, with a red-purple gradation.

Among the many new products Moroso will be presenting at Milan Salone del Mobile this year will be Glider, a sofa designed by Ron Arad, this year in its final version with even softer and more rounded lines, which give its shapes extreme comfort.

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