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Lot Essay
cf. Exhibition catalogue, 'XXIst Century Man', 21_21 Design Sight, catalogue, Tokyo, 2008, pp. 82-85 for other examples of this design; Exhibition catalogue, The State of Things, Design and the 21st Century, Design Museum Holon, Israel, 2010, p. 125 for an example of this chair in white;
nendo Ghost Stories, Japan, 2010, p. 55 for another example of this chair;
E. M. Alcorn, Decorative Arts and Design, Montreal, 2011, p. 345, pl. 579 for an example of this chair;
F. Schulze and R. Klanten, nendo 10/10, Berlin, 2013, pp. 65-69 for examples of this chair.
nendo designed this chair for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake to commemorate the first anniversary of the 21_21 Design Sight, a museum designed by Tadao Ando in Tokyo's Roppongi district. Miyake invited nendo to create a chair using the byproducts of the pleated fabric for which the designer is renowned.
Other examples of this chair design were exhibited in Modern by Design at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June - August 2011; The State of Things: Design and the 21st Century at the Design Museum Holon, Israel, March - May 1010; Ghost Stories: New Designs from nendo at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, October 2009 - January 2010; XXIst Century Man at 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan, March - July 2008.
Other examples of this chair are in the permanent collections of 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo (prototype), the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, (white), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (mixed), Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York (mixed), the Design Museum Holon, Israel (white), High Museum of Art, Atlanta (mixed, white, black), the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (white), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (white), The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (white), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (white), the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (black), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (green), and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (white).
nendo Ghost Stories, Japan, 2010, p. 55 for another example of this chair;
E. M. Alcorn, Decorative Arts and Design, Montreal, 2011, p. 345, pl. 579 for an example of this chair;
F. Schulze and R. Klanten, nendo 10/10, Berlin, 2013, pp. 65-69 for examples of this chair.
nendo designed this chair for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake to commemorate the first anniversary of the 21_21 Design Sight, a museum designed by Tadao Ando in Tokyo's Roppongi district. Miyake invited nendo to create a chair using the byproducts of the pleated fabric for which the designer is renowned.
Other examples of this chair design were exhibited in Modern by Design at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June - August 2011; The State of Things: Design and the 21st Century at the Design Museum Holon, Israel, March - May 1010; Ghost Stories: New Designs from nendo at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, October 2009 - January 2010; XXIst Century Man at 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan, March - July 2008.
Other examples of this chair are in the permanent collections of 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo (prototype), the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, (white), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (mixed), Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York (mixed), the Design Museum Holon, Israel (white), High Museum of Art, Atlanta (mixed, white, black), the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (white), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (white), The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (white), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (white), the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (black), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (green), and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (white).