LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW

A   large-scale retrospective of Japanese designer Nendo on exhibition at   the Taiwan Design Museum  features  some  322 works exhibited across  the 1420-square-meter  venue’s six   different galleries.  The architectural structure sits on the grounds of a former tobacco factory built during the Japanese Colonial Period and, since the galleries are linked together by long corridors, and also characterized by windows with wooden frames lining up against those corridors. The exhibition was designed so that the “corridor” and the facing “window” would play a key role in the exhibition space, and not the “gallery” itself.  

Small exhibition spaces for each furniture brand were fitted behind the window in the same size as the window and  brands were grouped together by region, such as Italy, Eastern Europe, North America and Asia, allowing for  visitors   viewing each window to   enjoy an experience that resembles having gone around the world visiting each brand.