Nao Tamura (Designer | New York)

Modular systemRYO
A single fold. The flat becomes form, the form becomes space.PORRO

LightingFLOW[T]
Venice at dusk. Light suspended between two worlds.Wonderglass

FurnitureORIGATA
It began with the way a kimono is made.PORRO

FurnitureCASCADE
A stream, stopped mid-fall. Time goes on around it.WonderGlass

LightingTIKI
It was never about the lamp. It was about that moment.Established & Sons

InstallationVISIONARIES
Glass blown in Venice, hung above a garden in Kyoto.Kyocera Museum

PUBLIC SPACETHE TOKYO TOILET
Three rooms, one red fold, wrapping around whoever walks in.THE TOKYO TOILET

LightingFLUID
Light is fleeting. Here it settles, layers, and softly stays.WonderGlass

InstallationSUNSHOWER
Sun and rain at the same time. It never lasts, so you look up.Lexus

Space DesignPLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE
A store where you can feel the pleats being made.ISSEY MIYAKE

ArtURUSHI
Urushi has always been heavy. We asked if it could float.Toyo Ito Architects

LightingVOSCO
Like a tool worn smooth by years of use.Ambientec

Lighting / InstallationMOMENTO
A droplet, suspended in light, just before it falls.WONDERGLASS

LightingSAGE
Plants turn toward light. So does this lamp.Ambientec

InstallationMOVING HORIZON
Points of light. Slowly, a horizon.Palais de Tokyo

InstallationINTERCONNECTION
Move one piece, and the rest move with it.Lexus

LightingTURN
A lamp that ages rather than expires.Ambientec

FurnitureKANSO
I watched my mother sit down between two strangers at the Whitney.HBF

FurnitureDUNNE
Not the drama of waves. The quieter forms they leave behind.Gandia Blasco

Product / InstallationSEASONS
Some things wither. Some are born anew. Objects live in that cycle too.COVO

LightingTURN+
Bright enough to read by. Soft enough to leave on.AMBIENTEC

ProductQUILL
No two feathers are ever alike.Nanimarquina

LightingTURN CRAFT
Hand-stitched leather that darkens in its owner’s hands.Ambientec

Product1/6
Not just to read the time, but to feel it ticking.Issey Miyake

LightingWEAVING THE LIGHT
Thin fibers of light weave softly through space.Panasonic

ArtRINGS
A tree holds its entire history within. Layer by layer, year by year.Artek

InstallationKO OLINA
Wind off the ocean, moving through fourteen stories of air.Toyo Ito Architects

TalksPOWER OF INTERCONNECTION
East and West, nature and technology. I work on the line between them.TEDx / DIMAD / Salone del Mobile