Nendo have just released these pictures of their first collaboration with Italian lighting firm Foscarini.

The very busy design studio (see our posts on their other new releases here and here) have created a pendant light that is as simple as it is beautiful.

Taking its form and name from the Japanese word 'maki' -  meaning something that has been rolled - Nendo created the lamp by rolling up two steel sheets from the same form.

Soft light spills out from the cracks between the two sheets, and complements the stronger light emitting from the open mouth, as though light itself has been rolled.

Photography Masayuki Hayashi.