Nendo will be showing their newest works in Milan in the form of a solo exhibition called 'Texured Transparencies' which opens on the 1th of April.

Four new furniture pieces will be on show at Galleria Jannone for the duration of the Salone del Mobile exploring the idea of transparency, but with a difference.

The Japanese design team have cast clear acrylic in a wooden form with a strong grain and then assembled the resulting pieces to create a table made of ‘transparent wood’.

"We reproduced the butt ends faithfully and bevelled the edges like floorboards, and matched the grains ends and dimensions of the wood used for the table legs to the ‘transparent wood’ to create a unified piece.

The two tables have specific and different optical effects: at first glance the black table is wood, but a closer look reveals its transparency, while the clear table is the transparent at first glance, and only later reveals its wooden form" they say.

It's not transparency that seeks only to disappear visually that Nendo were concerned with here, but the half-transparency that exists in graduations in the space between the transparent and the opaque, and the minute differences visible between different levels of transparency.

As always, it's Nendo's trademark tasteful well though-out stuff.

If you're in Milan next week, catch the show at 125 Corso Garibaldi from 10.30 am onwards.