The object
Oki Sato designed nendo’s Cabbage Chair by turning a roll of pleated-paper production waste into an unstructured, peel-open seat. MoMA catalogs the chair under Sato and nendo; the studio explains its resilient material construction and resilient form.
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What Oki did
designed the Cabbage Chair through nendo, transforming a roll of pleated-paper waste into a springy chair
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Why it matters
MoMA collected the Cabbage Chair, recognizing its material experiment as a consequential contemporary furniture design.
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Living-status check
Expo 2025’s official site published a September 2025 first-person interview with Sato about producing and designing the Japan Pavilion.