Nendo founder Oki Sato broke two frying pans when creating the heated-up material for his colourful Hana-arashi furniture collection for Paola Lenti, which was shown as part of Milan design week.
The designer, whose studio Nendo is known for its innovative but often pared-back and monochrome designs, created an unusually colourful collection for his collaboration with Italian design brand Paola Lenti.
Called Hana-arashi, it was made from leftover material and offcuts from Paola Lenti's outdoor furniture as part of the brand's Mottanai series of projects that aim to reuse waste.
The Hana-arashi collection comprises furniture and lamps
Sato, who normally gets more specific briefs, told Dezeen at the opening of an exhibition showcasing the collection that this was a different way of working for him. "When I work with a furniture company I usually get briefed to create an object ? they want a table, or for me to solve something," Sato said.
Instead, the brand's founder Paola Lenti invited Sato to her office and showed the offcuts of the fabric material used for its outdoor furniture.
The pieces were made from offcut fabric that was transformed into a new material
The colourful material turns into plastic once it is melted down.
"She showed me a piece of plastic and said, we melt the fabric and it becomes this material because it is made of 100 per cent polypropylene, which is a recyclable material," Sato said.
The contrast between the fabric in its original ...