The work of Japanese-Canadian designer Oki Sato - founder of
Tokyo design studio Nendo - is something that frankly I rarely encounter. Aside
from being ecologically friendly, beautiful, functional and infinitely well
made, the mission behind his work is about revealing aha (!) moments in our
mundane daily activities.
Take for instance his “farming-net” light pendants. Made from shaping, forming and heat-treating
agricultural nets used to cover fruits and vegetables in the field to protect
them from weather and pests, these lights float gently in the breeze … like
Japanese paper lanterns.
They take visual space, but their lightness makes them
poetic. And the aha (!) moment comes
when you experience them in your space and realize what they’re made from. Something like this would unlikely come from
our Western background, but in the East, with their heightened philosophical
sense of human existence, it makes perfect sense. Thank you Nendo!
image credits: Nendo, Japan. photos: Hiroshi Iwasaki
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PS: Thank you for stopping by and reading my feature today.
I love what I do as an interior designer and art advisor, and it’s my hope that
through these blog posts I’m enriching and heightening your aesthetic sensibility
towards art, design and fabulous interiors in some way ~ Richard Rabel (a.k.a. the modern sybarite)
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