Cité du design - Bâtiments H

Give the public a "!" moment. Dissimulated in our daily life, these exclamatory moments are numerous. But we don't know how to see them. And even when we recognise them, we tend to forget them. And yet these moments are what enrich our lives. In search of such situations, the Japanese studio Nendo has conceived a bird's house where one side allows birds in, while the other side allows us to watch them through small openings. The collective is also the author of a hold-all which has a pocket, like a kangaroo, made to hold a hand waving a puppet (dinosaur, bear, etc).

Given their carte blanche, the Japanese design studio Nendo offers a project verging on an installation of contemporary art, comprising some thirty tables arranged diagonally, in graduations of colour, across the exhibition surface. These pieces are made by a technique known as "udukuri", which consists of hollowing out the cyprus wood tops of the tables to bring out the natural wood-grain. Then the relief of the tops is transferred by crayon onto the covering paper. This process creates an amazing juxtaposition between the colour of the crayons used and the enhanced wood grain. This, according to Nendo, is an example of furniture of the future, through the manipulation of surface texture.