Sample 'Jellyfish' of crinkled polyester, designed by Reiko Sudo, made by NUNO Corporation, Japan, 1993

Sample of brown crinkled polyester in a checkboard pattern. Polyester organdy bonded onto heat-shrinking polyvinyl chloride.

Given by NUNO Corporation.

Included in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY 1996.

NUNO was founded in 1984 as a commercial venture dealing with all stages of textile creation: planning designing, manufacturing and sales. It is a small company which endeavours to combine the best of the past, by drawing on traditional Japanese aesthetics and creative processes, and combining them with modern technologies.

Registered File number 1997/1353, taken from Departmental Record

Attribution note: Manufacturers note: An industrial vinyl polychloride fabric with a preset 50% heat-shrinkage ratio, developed for such uses as car seat covers, is layered onto a polyester organdy, but only partially affixed - using a special adhesive screen-printed in a checkerboard pattern - before receiving a flash heat-treatment. This causes the polyester organdy to shrivel where adhered, and being a thermoplastic fabric, it retains these crinkles even after the vinyl polychloride is peeled away.
Reason For Production: Retail

The NUNO Corporation was founded in 1984. Based in Tokyo, its design studio creates modern textiles and accessories. NUNO designers are renowned for their ability to develop and apply the latest technology to textile design and manufacture. However, much of their work is also based on traditional Japanese textile techniques and aesthetics, and it is this fusion of the traditional with the contemporary that makes NUNO fabrics so innovative.

T.118:21-1998