Cat hugging watch by SANAA
As you probably heard, SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize. For more on this, NPR and the NYT have your back.
This gives Japan a total of 4 award winners, putting them in-line with the UK and bringing them one step closer, but still several steps behind, the pack leader – the US, which has a total of 8 recipients.
SANAA’s rate probably just jumped 2-fold, which means anyone who has already commissioned them for work is patting each other on the back. Ｔhis includes the watchmaker SEIKO, who, in a press release last week, announced that they had enlisted the pair to design a wristwatch as part of their Alessi Collection. “The concept,” writes the designer, “is a cat that hugs your wrist.”
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Think this is an odd collaboration? Not at all. The duo have already designed eye-wear. This was only the next logical step.
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