Visible Structures: Chair (White)
- nendo, Japanese, 2002
- Work Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Milan, Italy
nendo
Established 2002, Tokyo, Japan
Visible Structures: Chair (White)
2011
Polystyrene foam and carbon stripe
Funds from Design Council of the Denver Art Museum, 2013.60
“…The everyday can become something more if it’s given the attention it deserves.”
Design studio nendo conceived of its Visible Structures collection of stools and chairs after thinking about carbon fiber’s use as a supporting building material, a technique developed after the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Wrapped around concrete columns and beams of a bridge, carbon fiber provides seismic resistance to structures difficult to reinforce against earthquakes with traditional methods. Here, nendo applied strips of an industrial-strength carbon tape―a flexible material when used on its own―to sheets of ordinary foam board. The polystyrene core suppresses the bendability of the tape, creating a strong and lightweight composite material.
- "Unseated: Contemporary Chairs Reimagined"—Denver Art Museum, 5/1/2016 - 11/12/2017
Some images in our online collection are at thumbnail size, in accordance with AAMD guidelines, because they are protected by copyright. The Denver Art Museum respects the rights of artists or their representatives who retain the copyright to their work. Other images represent the best photography available and should be used as reference images only. Please complete the Image Rights Request form if you want to request a high resolution image.
