Books by Robert Klanten
“The curiosity evident in Nendo’s work is in how this studio combines materials that have been used before in separate contexts. Take the transparent chair, a wooden chair which appears to be floating in mid air as the legs seem to disappear as they reach the floor. Nendo used wood craftsmanship following a Japanese tradition. In addition, though, the studio used resin and epoxy, a material that’s been in use since the seventies, in a really startling way, juxtaposing the organic with the inorganic, the apparently immaterial. It’s the combination of the two elements in a way that’s very subtle, and clever.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Robert Klanten were recommended
The best books on Product Design, recommended by Katia Martins & Tiago Russo
We asked Tiago Russo and Katia Martins—founders of Craft Design, a studio that is compiling a library that aspires to be the authoritative reference collection of design books—to talk us through five essential texts on product design, from the democratic vision of Charles and Ray Eames to Japanese studio Nendo’s playful wit.
