Work: H-Horse

Description

“White and transparencies, materials reduced to the minimum, satin finishes, lightness, invisibility, are some characteristics of the Nendo studio, together with that of being very prolific and in many fields – the word nendo means ‘clay’ and expresses the idea of this malleability”, Chiara Alessi.

H-Horse is a rocking horse in transparent methacrylate, a plastic material, designed by the Nendo group and manufactured by Kartell since 2016. It is a highly stylized version of a classic toy. There is no doubt: at the very first glance its geometry suggests a rocking horse. Its pure essence.

The object, 74 cm high, is brought into existence by the deformation of a hypothetical H-shaped beam which would normally be made of steel, but here is in methacrylate.

The letter H is rotated from vertical to horizontal and the figure of the horse is generated by deformation: the lower face is incurved, becoming the rocker, while the upper becomes the seat before continuing and separating from the vertical part to produce the curvature that allows us to imagine the horse’s head.

“Nendo is the name of a collective of professionals that first came together under the guidance of the Japanese designer, Oki Sato, in 2002. In little over twenty years of work, it has managed to create an incredibly strong, recognizable identity whilst paying homage to the Japanese principle of no style, no name, no brand (muji).” Chiara Alessi.