Naked Shape Design by Seiji Onishi is a study in aluminium and everyday beauty. This book gathers fifty photographs of domestic aluminium objects collected by the celebrated Japanese industrial designer over decades, each paired with his own reflections on design. From dice and baby rattles to Buddhist bells and fans, these modest pieces reveal a quiet ingenuity born in post-war Japan, when aluminium became a material of necessity and imagination.
The collection honours what Onishi calls a design without a designer, a form of anonymous making that shaped modern life through practicality and charm.
Published in Japan.
