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Monday, October 5, 2009

Upholstery Mosses

Japanese design bureau Nendo Studio completed re private residence in the area of Ebisu, Tokyo. Designers were inspired by plants that cover the embankment of the nearby River. Artist Oki Seto used dried moss to decorate the walls of the house pattern, reminiscent of curly branches vines. Thus the artist wants to bring to room atmosphere something to really live.


Oki Seto explains that the word "Nendo" denotes "very soft, very thin, easily changeable clay." The artist said that members of the studio, unlike most people who try to draw inspiration not in the magazines and pictures, or traveling somewhere far beyond the new sensations, but in natural forms, natural formations and everyday life.

Registration of this house - a perfect example of symbiosis of the natural content of modern graphic forms.


According to Oka Seto, cover the wall completely with moss, it would be impractical. Therefore studio has created a pattern of moss, resembling ordinary wallpaper. And so it turns out that the decoration of the room either natural or artificial.

To combine all the rooms of the house in the same stylistic pace, door jambs and plug sockets were decorated with similar patterns. Oki Seto said that such a move could lead to the sorting in the design, but adjusted the mixture of natural materials and images look balanced.