More nice new things from Nendo!
Hot on the heels of their super minimal shoehorn for Maruni, comes a stylish monochrome globe called Corona from the Japanese design team, made for Watanabe Kyogu.
In case you're not familiar with the name, Watanabe Kyogu make high-specification, hand-applied globes at their educational products firm in Soka, Saitama Prefecture outside of Tokyo. Here's what Nendo have to say about the project:
"We wanted to take full advantage of Watanabe Kyogu’s high level of craftsmanship. We were also interested in creating a new kind of globe that would be more emotional, rather than simply presenting information.
By reducing the amount of information, and rendering the oceans in white and landmasses in black, the corona globe highlights the reliefs of islands and coastlines. A globe’s stand should complement the globe, so we created a gentle curve that recedes rather than standing out, and powder-coated the steel for a fresh, gentle finish that blends with the globe’s lustrous surface."
With a variety of interiors in mind, Nendo have created three sizes: a standard 26 centimetre diameter version, a floor model that stands just over a metre tall, and a smaller version with a 15 cm diameter. (Cute!)
It's a long time since we were at school, but we'd like one of these.
Photography: Yoneo Kawabe
