Naked Shapes
Naked Shapes is an exhibition of aluminum Japanese household objects from the first half of the 20th century, cleaned of dirt and any sort of make-up such as paint, labels or other excess decoration.
The objects were collected over the years by industrial designer Seiji Onishi, gallerist Keiichi Sumi and graphic designer Nobuhiro Yamaguchi. A group of students from Parsons The New School for Design in New York did the cleaning.
The items are currently on display at the Domaine de Boisbuchet, a country estate in the Southwest of France. Their website describes it well:
In their simplicity, anonymity and material nakedness, they express a quiet yet clear poetry of everyday objects.
Personally, I love the effect his cleaning has… So honest! What do you think?
- 29.09.2011 .
- Maarten P. Kappert .
- Tags .
- Category:
- Uncategorized
- Object:
- Exhibition
- Designer:
- Seiji Onishi + Nobuhiro Yamaguchi + Keiichi Sumi
- Material:
- Aluminum
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- 2 comments
a view from the past ! but this doesnt necessarily have to be japanese, reminding me also of good old german kitchen stuff from the 50s !
but these things honestly werent truely minimalistic, apart from the choice of materials :)
happy weekend everyone!
Give me more! : )
There’s a new “stick” vacuum cleaner by Dyson which I have recently bought but had to return due to very poor ergonomics. When I contemplated its design, I longed for a really basic, honest and reductionist stick vacuum cleaner that I could leave visible in my kitchen, convenient for quick cleanups.
What an opportunity to design appliances along these lines. Braun used to do it with Dieter Rams.