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Noboru Nakamura. A tribute to one of IKEA's most prolific and influential designers. Noboru Nakamura, a Japanese product designer who worked with IKEA for several decades, passed away on 18 April 2023. His memory lives on through an impressive porfolio of furniture – in particular the POÄNG chair, which remains one of IKEA's most popular and ...
Noboru Nakamura [ja] Date. 1978. Sold by. IKEA. The Poäng (Swedish pronunciation: [pʊˈɛ̂ŋ] ⓘ, lit. 'point, argument, punch-line') is a wooden cantilever armchair that has been sold by the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA since 1978. As of 2016, about one-and-a-half million Poängs are sold annually, and a total of 30 million have been ...
Sep 1, 2016 · Japanese designer Noboru Nakamura is the creator of the Poäng. He came to Ikea in 1973 to learn more about Scandinavian furniture–and there, he collaborated with Lars Engman, the director of ...
Noboru Nakamura. Price. EUR 49. With a frame of layer-glued bent wood veneer, POEM was an armchair in the same Scandinavian vein as the furniture of ground-breaking designers Bruno Mathsson and Alvar Aalto. But it commanded a far lower price. POEM was designed by Japanese designer Noboru Nakamura. Lars Engman, who later became head of design at ...
Both the KLIPPAN sofa and POÄNG armchair were created by Japanese designer Noboru Nakamura – or “Nacka” as he was affectionately known as by his colleagues – in collaboration with product developer Lars Engman and others. Nakamura, who passed away last year, worked for IKEA in Sweden between 1975 and 1978. KLIPPAN and POÄNG were both ...
Oct 15, 2017 · Together, they tell the story of a fateful collaboration between Lars Engman, a young IKEA designer, and his co-worker, Noboru Nakamura. Nakamura had initially come to IKEA to learn more about ...
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Noboru NakamuraProfessor Research Focus: ... Nakamura, N. (2023) "Climate change and atmospheric blocking (in Japanese)" The Physical Society of Japan, 516-524.
