Yellow Nose Studio: INDERGARTEN

INDERGARTEN is the first monographic publication by Taiwanese design duo Yellow Nose Studio. The slender hardbound title portrays a concise arrangement of seating objects and vases, emphasising the duo’s fluid practice between design, craft, art, and architecture. Ten variations on three wooden shapes – a circle, a square, and a rectangle – form the foundation of Yellow Nose Studio’s INDERGARTEN series. True to the spirit of simplification, Yellow Nose Studio has dropped the ‘K’ from the word ‘Kindergarten,’ opening a space of possibility guided by playfulness and curiosity.

The childhood imagination serves as fertile ground, from which new geometries and architectural structures emerge through simple gestures, such as the stacking of blocks. As a nod to the philosophy of Friedrich Fröbel, who in 1840 established the first Kindergarten for young children — a term that literally translates to ‘children’s garden’ and was intended to provide space for children to explore and observe nature — INDERGARTEN comprises a playful collection of seating objects and vases.

Returning to the ritual of picking up a pen and scribbling on stones collected during their travels, Hsin-Ying Ho and Kai-Ming Tung imprint their vessels with hand gestures and abstract textures. Between wonder and experimentation, originality and repetition, new ideas begin to emerge.

Pages: 64
Dimensions: 162 × 224 mm
Format: Hardcover
Language: English, Chinese
Year: 2024
Design: HelloMe
Publisher: Meter