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For the fourth year running, Friedman Benda presents a single-artist exhibition at Design Miami/ Basel. In a setting created by nendo, the celebrated Japanese design firm will debut their Watercolour Collection, an eighteen-piece metal furniture series inspired by the effects of watercolour paint on a paper surface.

To express the idea of paper, the objects are designed to look as though they were cut and folded by hand. In order to create a foundation that resembles paper and to easily blur the ink paint on the objects, the metal frames and surfaces, which are the substrate materials, are …