总部位于日本，享誉国际的工业设计公司nendo也开始进军室内设计和建筑设计领域，他们最近为自己位于东京港区办公总部二层的connel咖啡厅设计了室内空间以及相应的餐具与品牌包装。

咖啡厅位于丹下健三设计的建筑中（nendo新办公空间占据了这栋大楼）；拥有得天独厚的位置，室外临靠着Korekiyo Takahashi纪念公园，室内临靠着中庭中野口勇设计的石头花园，各处外景都极为美丽。整个设计为了尊重场所景观，未在空间中安放任何墙体，只重设了地板与家具。为了保持统一感，地面瓷砖的缝与楼梯和天花都是对应的。nendo希望将景色最大限度引入室内，他们大面积和多处采用到了镜面材料：天花板是灰色镜面，桌面采用相同的灰色镜面，柜台顶部采用黑色反光亮漆，大部分家具也采用黑色。

A café situated on the 2nd floor of the Sogetsu Kaikan in Minato ward, Tokyo. Its original interiors are still intact from when they were designed by Kenzo Tange in 1977. It also boasts some very picturesque views of the Akasaka Estate, the Korekiyo Takahashi Memorial Park, and the stone garden created by Isamu Noguchi. In order to preserve these features, the walls and ceilings have been left untouched, no new wall fixtures have been set up, and only the floor and furniture have been redesigned. The “stream” flooring designed by nendo has been fitted throughout to smoothly unify the bi-partitioned space. The sides of the counters have been fitted with same said material, and the flooring tile jointers on the counters and stairs have all also been aligned with those on the floor, so as to create and even greater sense of consistency within the room. Also, the tops of the counters have been finished in a gloss black to match the grey mirror finish of the ceiling. In the lounge area, the original “tulip chairs” by Eero Saarinen have been repaired for reuse with a new matted black paint finish. The accompanying “tulip tables” have also been repaired, and their tabletops have been fitted with the same mirror material as the ceiling. The result is an interior design that brings out the innate properties and merits of the original space as it was first conceived.

这个位于nendo总部大楼中的connel咖啡厅由nendo管理。nendo在日语中有“泥”的意思，connel则有“捏”“模具”的意思，咖啡厅logo中的c由nendo的n变化卷曲而来；杯子的手柄也做成多个自由弯曲的造型，咖啡搅拌棒也不例外，采用锡制成，用户可以把这直立的小棍改变成自己想要的形式。

The café is chiefly managed by nendo, and inspired by our ever-growing collaborations with a wide variety of people, we have named it “connel”; a play on the Japanese word “koneru”, meaning “to knead” or “to mold”, as in molding a piece of clay. The word “nendo” itself means “clay” in Japanese. The café’s logo has been designed by taking the “n” from the nendo logo and bending it to form two “c”s. Similarly, the handles on our original mugs have been bent, or “kneaded”, by hand, giving each a unique shape. Also, the stirring sticks have been designed to stay upright on their own, and they have been made out of tin so that they gradually soften and change their form with continued use.