Selected Projects
A single fold. The flat becomes form, the form becomes space.PORRO
Light is fleeting. Here it settles, layers, and softly stays.WonderGlass
It was never about the lamp. It was about that moment.Established & Sons
Not the drama of waves. The quieter forms they leave behind.Gandia Blasco
Like a tool worn smooth by years of use.Ambientec
A store where you can feel the pleats being made.ISSEY MIYAKE
It began with the way a kimono is made.PORRO
Wind off the ocean, moving through fourteen stories of air.Toyo Ito Architects
A stream, stopped mid-fall. Time goes on around it.WonderGlass
Hand-stitched leather that darkens in its owner’s hands.Ambientec
Glass blown in Venice, hung above a garden in Kyoto.Kyocera Museum
East and West, nature and technology. I work on the line between them.TEDx / DIMAD / Salone del Mobile
Three rooms, one red fold, wrapping around whoever walks in.THE TOKYO TOILET
Sun and rain at the same time. It never lasts, so you look up.Lexus
Bright enough to read by. Soft enough to leave on.AMBIENTEC
Not just to read the time, but to feel it ticking.Issey Miyake
Plants turn toward light. So does this lamp.Ambientec
A lamp that ages rather than expires.Ambientec
Urushi has always been heavy. We asked if it could float.Toyo Ito Architects
Thin fibers of light weave softly through space.Panasonic
I watched my mother sit down between two strangers at the Whitney.HBF
Points of light. Slowly, a horizon.Palais de Tokyo
Move one piece, and the rest move with it.Lexus
![FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.](https://naotamura.com/img/2015/04/NaoTamura_IN_Flowt04-576x768.jpg "FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.")
Venice at dusk. Light suspended between two worlds.Wonderglass
![FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.](https://naotamura.com/img/2024/02/NaoTamura_WonderGlassKyosera20-600x420.jpg "FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.")
![FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.](https://naotamura.com/img/2015/04/NaoTamura_WonderGlass03-600x420.jpg "FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.")
![FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.](https://naotamura.com/img/2022/07/NaoTamura_WonderGlass08-600x420.jpg "FLOW[T], WonderGlass. Design by Nao Tamura.")
No two feathers are ever alike.Nanimarquina
A droplet, suspended in light, just before it falls.WONDERGLASS
A tree holds its entire history within. Layer by layer, year by year.Artek
Some things wither. Some are born anew. Objects live in that cycle too.COVO
