A cut-out mountainscape, wobbly jellyfish vases and tables that melt into bowls are among the items exhibited by Japanese brand Nendo at its Milan design week exhibition.
On show at the Jil Sander showroom in the Brera district of Milan, the Invisible Outlines exhibition brings together 16 of the brand's projects, all exploring what happens when boundaries are blurred or ? conversely ? enhanced.

"The theme is about boundaries, borders, edges of things," Nendo founder Oki Sato told Dezeen. "It's about showing new ways of seeing things and sharing these things."
The exhibition stretches across seven rooms, largely with an all-white colour scheme and a soundtrack of meditative music. One of these rooms holds the new project Jellyfish Vases ? ultra-thin transparent silicon vases in different shapes.
The vases are displayed submerged in a fish tank, where they gently wobble around like jellyfish.
The largest space holds 80 Sheets of Mountains ? a roomful of mountain-like partitions that was originally shown in Stockholm several years ago.

"Each mountain is made of a single sheet of Forex," said Sato. "By cutting them out and stretching them open, it becomes like a mountain."

"The project is about creating more edges from a single sheet, because with one sheet there are four sides, but by cutting them and spreading them open, the edges create this kind of landscape."

Interspersed between the hills are other projects, includi...