Cologne 2013: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture with components that look like they're peeled away from wooden stems (+ slideshow).
"We splintered each piece of wood as though peeling it away," says Nendo. "We kept larger pieces of wood at their original thickness to provide strength where necessary, and used thin pieces of wood that had splintered off for more delicate parts."
"We approached the wood gently, going with the grain so that the wood would retain its original pliancy," Nendo adds.
Called Splinter, the range includes a chair, coat stand, side table and two mirrors.
It is produced by Conde House, a manufacturer based in Japan's Asahikawa wooden furniture region.
The series will be presented at imm cologne in Germany from 14 to 20 January 2013.
Nendo have been Dezeen regulars for a long time and their recent projects include chairs covered in fishing line rather than varnish, bowls so thin they quiver in the wind and the Dark Noon series of watches available from Dezeen Watch Store.
See all our stories about design by Nendo.
Photos are by Yoneo Kawabe.
Something new?
» the chair looks like Makil by Patrick Norguet
» the coffee tables looks like Namu by Böttcher+Henssler
» the mirrors look like Perch by Pierre Favresse
And Patrick Norguet’s chair looks like Bac by Jasper Morrison, and it goes on and on.
It’s just an creative evolution: nothing comes from nowhere (and I’m not talking about copying).
I agree that there are some paralells between the mentioned products but in this instance Nendo has chosen a wooden “peeled” detail and executed a coherent range of high quality, well deserving its existance.
Reminds me of the split chair by Daniel Lorch – he made it from steel tube: http://www.daniellorch.de/
Both are nice chairs though.
Here: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/08/split-chair-by-d…
Nice detail!
Nice, but the peeling idea is not new:
http://design-milk.com/plooop-chair-by-timothy-sc…
Sure would like to see a video of the production process.
Simply beautiful.
Nendo can do no wrong (yet) in my opinion. They are just brilliant every time I see new work from them.
Chair by Daniel Lorch and mirrors by La Mamba. What’s going on Nendo? Amazing technique by the way!
Mirrors look like La Mamba studio. The other stuff is okay but not amazing.
How many different pieces of wood make up the backrest? Five? More? I would also like to see a video of the production process!
I don’t understand how Nendo can deliver hundreds of projects every year. The natural outcome of that though is that some projects are truly nice like this one, while others are just tacky gadgets. I’d like them to focus more, do less but more high quality.
Very beautiful chair. I would like to see how they make it. I think it near impossible to make a new original chair. Today there is so many models, that there always will been another chair that “looks-a-like”.
Nendo can do no wrong (yet) in my opinion. They are just brilliant every time I see new work from them.
Wegner has a chair with this technology, but is has been dormant and Nendo, once again, resurrected it. That is great.
Now, heavy jackets are going to crack that coat hanger in no time.