Nendo bases furniture for Walt Disney Japan on Winnie-the-Pooh characters
Japanese studio Nendo has dressed up these wooden tables for Walt Disney Japan to look like characters from children's story books Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Nendo created colourful knitted covers for the Pooh Table collection of maple wood furniture so the designs represent the famous yellow bear and his companions.
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"To reflect the stories' setting in the Hundred Acre Wood, the tables use natural-feel maple extensively, and come in sizes and silhouettes intended to recall the stories' characters," said Nendo.
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The largest table has a red knit covering a shelf beneath it's top, similar to the sweater worn by Winnie the Pooh.
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His close friend Piglet is depicted as a three-legged side table wearing a purple sleeve across most of its top.
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Forlorn donkey Eeyore is channelled through a table with a surface that droops to the floor, dressed in grey fabric.
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Bouncy tiger Tigger's orange tail is mimicked by a table's stand, which extends down past where it branches into three legs.
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A design with surfaces at two heights looks like kanagroo mother-and-son pair Kanga and Roo, while Rabbit is identified by knitted socks on two legs of another table in the collection.
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The Winnie the Pooh stories were written by AA Milne in the 1920s for his son Christopher Robin, who also features in the tales.
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The stories were commercialised by American producer Stephen Slesinger in the 1930s, when the cartoon characters we recognise today were first created.
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Following his death, the rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise were licensed to animation studio Walt Disney Productions in 1961.
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Nendo created this series for Disney's Japanese branch, which has one of its Disneyland resorts in Tokyo.