nendo / Oki Sato Born in Toronto, Canada M.A. in Architecture, Waseda University, Tokyo Established “nendo” Tokyo office Established “nendo” Milan office “The 100 Most Respected Japanese” (Newsweek magazine) “The Top 100 Small Japanese Companies” (Newsweek magazine) A jury member of iF award Lecturer for Waseda University, Tokyo “Designer of the Year” (Wallpaper* magazine) “Designer of the Year” (ELLE DECO International Design Awards) “Guest of honor” (Toronto Interior Design Show) “Guest of honor” (Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair) “Designer of the Year” (Maison & Objet) “Interior Designers of the Year” (Iconic Awards) “CHANGE MAKER OF THE YEAR 2015” (Nikkei Online) “Designers Hot List” Number one (dezeen) A producer of World Design Capital Taipei Jury Chair for the Golden Pin Design Award Museum of Modern Art / New York Musee des Arts decoratifs / Paris
Museum of Arts and Design / New York Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum / New York Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Montreal Design Museum Holon / Holon Israel Museum / Jerusalem High Museum of Art / Atlanta Victoria and Albert Museum / London Centre Pompidou / Paris Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago Triennale Design Museum / Milan Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles Denver Art Museum / Denver Design Museum / London Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia 21_21 Design Sight / Tokyo Indianapolis Museum of Arts / Indianapolis M + Museum / Hong Kong Mondriaan Foundation / Netherlands Museum of Fine Arts / Houston St. Louis Art Museum / St. Louis Good Design Award (Japan) Japan Commercial Environmental Design Association (JCD) Award Gold Prize Japan Interior Architects / Designer’s Association (JID) Award Grand Prize I.D. Annual Design Review Best Product (USA)
red dot design award (Germany) iF products design award (Germany) Furniture Design Award Grand Prize (Singapore) Wallpaper Best Domestic Design (UK) Compasso d’Oro Honorable Mention (Italy) ELLE DECO International Design Awards “Designer of the Year” (Italy) ELLE DECO International Design Awards “Bath and Materials” (Italy) Maison & Objet “Designer of the Year” (France) German Design Award (Germany) ELLE DECO International Design Awards “Bedding” (Italy) Iconic Design Award “Interior Designer of the Year” (Germany) CHANGE MAKER OF THE YEAR 2015 (Japan) ELLE DECO International Design Awards “Best in Outdoor Furniture” (Italy) Collective Design “Collective Influence” (USA) Thailand Property Award “Best Retail Development” (Thailand) Thailand Property Award “Best Commercial Development” (Thailand) dezeen “Designers Hot List” Number one (England) “streeterior” / Milan Design Week / Milan
“streeterior” / Tokyo Design Center / Tokyo “streeterior” / Living Design Center OZONE / Tokyo “furnature” / Tokyo Design Center / Tokyo “bloomroom” / Milan Design Week / Milan “bloomroom” / Istituto Europeo di Design / Madrid “elastic diamond” / Milan Design Week / Milan “kuuki” / Le Bain gallery / Tokyo “ghost stories” / Friedman Benda gallery / New York “ghost stories” / Museum of Arts and Design / New York “chair garden” / Antonia Jannone gallery / Milan “thin black lines” / Phillips de Pury at Saatchi gallery / London “blurry white surfaces” / Phillips de Pury / London “dancing squares” Art Stage / Singapore “textured transparencies” Agathe Helion & Clear gallery / Paris “textured transparencies” / Agathe Helion & Clear gallery / Paris “thin black lines + dancing squares” / National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute / Taichung
“visible structures” / High museum of Art / Atlanta “10 days 10 shelves” / Carpenters Workshop gallery / London “scatter shelf” / Friedman Benda gallery / New York “50 projects _ 25objects + 25spaces” / AXIS gallery / Tokyo “static bubbles” / Carpenters Workshop gallery / Paris “object dependencies” / Pierre-Alain Challier gallery / Paris “trial & error” / Visconti Palace / Milan “still & sparkling” / Superstudio / Milan “black & black” / Carrozzeria / Milan “mimicry chairs” / Victoria And Albert Museum / London “still & sparkling” / Prague House / Brussels “80 sheets of mountains” / Stockholm International Furniture Fair / Sweden “Nichetto=Nendo” / Milan Design Week / Milan “Glassworks” / Dilmos gallery / Milan “works by nendo” / Milan Design Week / Milan “space dipped shirts” / Milan Design Week / Milan “chocolatexture lounge” / Maison & Objet / Paris
“tokyo tribal collection” / Maison & Objet / Singapore “nendo works 2014-2015” / Milan Design Week / Milan “nendo 3/3” / EYE OF GYRE / Tokyo “50 manga chairs” / Milan Design Week / Milan “nendo : the space in between” / Design Museum Holon / Holon “nendo : looking through the window” / Taiwan Design Center / Taipei “un-printed material” / Creation Gallery G8 / Tokyo “slice of time” / Spiral Garden / Tokyo “monom factory” / Living Design Center OZONE / Tokyo “Shanghai Cool” / Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art / Shanghai “ArchiLab” / Site des Subsistances Militaires / Orleans “DuoHandles” / Stilwerk / Berlin “Power of Expression, Japan” / National Art Center / Tokyo “All light, All right” / Hangaram Design Museum / Seoul “Space for your future” / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo “Design and the Elastic Mind” / Museum of Modern Art / New York
“XXIst Century Man” / 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT / Tokyo “Foodesign” / Triennale di Milano / Milan “Extra Much” / imm cologne / Cologne “Hand of the Architect” / Triennale di Milano / Milan “Tokyo Fiber, SENESWARE” / Triennale di Milano / Milan “Second Nature” / Rundetaarn / Copenhagen “Delight” / Maison & Objet / Paris “Detour” / MoMA Design Store / Tokyo “13,798 grams of design” / Lambretto Art Project / Milan “International Kogei Triennale” / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Kanazawa “KANSEI DESIGN SHOWCASE” / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Kanazawa “KANSEI DESIGN SHOWCASE” / Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre / Hong Kong “HAUTE TENSION” / Maison & Objet / Paris “Modern By Design” / High Museum of Art / Atlanta “Beijing International Design Triennial, REASON DESIGN EMOTION” / National Museum of China / Beijing “Can you imagine?” / MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI Secolo / Rome