Thursday, May 03, 2007

Salone del Mobile 2007

Zona Tortona. This piano was especially designed by Yamaha for the Japanese, multi-talented, musician, composer, pianist, producer and actor, Ryuichi Sakamoto. There are only three piano’s like this one in the world. It is called the Opera Piano and it’s very beautiful.


Seen at Yamaha. Yasuhiro Kira, Yamaha’s product design executive officer, explains the design of the Opera Piano “This the fruits of a minimalist approach to design in which unnecessary features have been eliminated to the maximum degree possible and in which full advantage has been taken of the beauty possessed by each individual material utilized.