Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo

Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo transformed the MADProjects Gallery on the Museum’s second floor into a magical landscape of new designs that imbue chairs, vases, and lamps with whimsy and optical illusion. Founded and led by Oki Sato, Nendo has garnered international attention and more than 45 design awards for its beautifully simple yet surprisingly humorous work in interiors, furniture, product design, graphics, and architecture. The exhibition included four new designs, accompanied by prototypes and videos that make imaginative use of new and traditional materials to surprise expectations: The "Fade-Out" chair, "Blown-Color," an assembly of one-of-a-kind lamps, "Cord-Chair," and "Phantom-Waves," a series of prototypes for a new vase.

Ghost Stories was the second exhibition in the MADProjects Gallery, which was launched in February 2009. Both timely and provocative, this ongoing program invites MAD curators, collaborators, and leading voices in the field to explore emerging trends and innovations in design.

Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo is made possible, in part, by the generosity of the Design Council of the Museum of Arts and Design.