Conceived in 2018 as part of Arte Sella, the monumental work Kodama created by Kengo Kuma has inspired furniture and accessories. The Japanese master now returns to the theme of Kodama with its first texture for Albed and reproduce its play of perfect interlocks on glass, creating a unique, intricate, and infinite pattern in the transition from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
The design concept of Kodama – previously explored and developed in wood, marble, metal, and other materials – evolves into a visual narrative on screen-printed glass, used to create door panels that can be applied to any of the Milan-based company’s catalog collections. Architecture becomes decoration, sculpture becomes design, and formal research becomes a pattern to be endlessly replicated.
Kodama is followed by Komorebi (the light that filters through the leaves of trees), a second pattern also inspired by the forest, which, through a Japanese ideogram, symbolically evokes the relationship between man and nature. Here, the hand-drawn graphic sign again creates a repeatable matrix, and is customizable in shades of white, grey, and black, applicable to extra-glossy, acid-etched, matte, smoked, or bronze-effect glass.
As new additions to the Albed finishes catalog, Kodama and Komorebi are available for use in Albed tailor-made solutions: hinged, pocket, sliding, and folding doors, as well as partition walls and walk-in closets – designed to meet the demands of residential, hospitality, and office interior projects.
