#chocolatexture

The Chocolatexturebar Titillates The Tongue With Texture

You my recall my post about “chocolatexture”, the 2015 creation by Japanese design firm nendo that was based on the theme of chocolate but with diverse textures and different tastes created from those distinctive textures. (more…)

Chocolatexture by Japanese Nendo

“Japanese design office Nendo has created 9 different types of chocolate. While each of them are the same size, not a single piece from the Chocolatexture ( created for the Maison & Objet Trade Fair) collection look alike. That’s because Oki Sato, who leads the Tokyo and Milan-based firm, rethought the concept of chocolate by focusing on texture. “There are many factors that determine a…

Japanese design firm Nendo designed a new chocolate concept, chocolaTexture, based on shape of the candies as opposed to the ingredients, for Maison et Objet. (more…)

#Nendo 設計出 #巧克力 天堂：能吃還能學 #日文 #擬聲詞？

  情人節剛過，也為年度巧克力大戰畫下休止符。不過受到全世界熱愛的巧克力其實除了是送禮、犒賞自己的好物之外，也是藝術家們大展身手的素材喔！

日本知名設計工作室Nendo就與從巴黎起家的知名展覽公司 Maison&Objet 聯手，打造一座四面環壁皆採用巧克力的藝術空間，不但有滿滿巧克圍繞，還能在裡面煮咖啡，根本是下午茶的極致天堂。

除了令人垂涎三尺的裝潢設計外，最令人驚艷的莫過於由Nendo創辦人佐藤大(Oki Sato)操刀的九款精緻巧克力，它們擁有幾何圖形的外觀，統一的小巧體積，最特別的是這些巧克力以日文「擬聲詞」為靈感來決定它們的面貌，例如「toge…

#Nendo 設計出 #巧克力 天堂：能吃還能學 #日文 #擬聲詞？

  情人節剛過，也為年度巧克力大戰畫下休止符。不過受到全世界熱愛的巧克力其實除了是送禮、犒賞自己的好物之外，也是藝術家們大展身手的素材喔！

日本知名設計工作室Nendo就與從巴黎起家的知名展覽公司 Maison&Objet 聯手，打造一座四面環壁皆採用巧克力的藝術空間，不但有滿滿巧克圍繞，還能在裡面煮咖啡，根本是下午茶的極致天堂。

除了令人垂涎三尺的裝潢設計外，最令人驚艷的莫過於由Nendo創辦人佐藤大(Oki Sato)操刀的九款精緻巧克力，它們擁有幾何圖形的外觀，統一的小巧體積，最特別的是這些巧克力以日文「擬聲詞」為靈感來決定它們的面貌，例如「toge…

Geometric Chocolate Collection Employs Texture to Affect Taste

Chocolate as a work of art or as an element of aesthetics is nothing new in the world of design. And Japanese design studio Nendo is no stranger to having chocolate in their body of work.

Back in 2013, the studio designed chocolates packaged like a set of oil paints for Seibu the Japanese department store. This year, the design house has created a unique chocolate collection that alters texture and structure to affect taste.

Chocolatexture is a collection of nine different types of chocolate made in the same size but in various shapes and textures. The pieces feature pointed tips, smooth and rough exteriors, hollow interiors, and more. The different textures allow for differing tastes even though all the chocolate pieces in the collection are made of the same raw ingredients.

According to the studio’s description of the project, there are many factors that determine the taste of a piece of chocolate. These factors include what country the cocoa comes from, the kind of cocoa, the percentage content, the flavors inside, and the technique of the chocolatier. However, in their new chocolate concept, Nendo decided to put the focus on a different factor: the shape of the chocolate.

The nine pieces in the collection are named after Japanese expressions used to describe texture. Chocolatexture includes tubu-tubu or chunks of smaller chocolate drops; sube-sube with smooth edges and corners; zara-zara or granular like a file; toge-toge or sharp pointed tips; goro-goro or fourteen connected small cubes; fuwa-fuwa or soft and airy with many tiny holes; poki-poki or a cube frame made of chocolate sticks; suka-suka, a hollow cube with thin walls; and zaku-zaku, alternately-placed thin chocolate rods forming a cube.

The chocolate collection was showcased this month at Maison & Objet in Paris at a specially-designed space called the Nendo ChocolaTexture Lounge, where visitors could enjoy the chocolate collection with coffee. The Chocolate Texture Lounge included cocoa-colored furnishings to go with the chocolate theme.

Nendo was awarded “Designer of the Year” at the 2015 Maison & Object.

Nendo // Maison & Object