ALVA NOTO (Carsten Nicolai) SIGNATURE WALLET

The "SIGNATURE COLLECTION" is born from the pursuit of individual usability.

Carsten Nicolai, who was in charge of sound at JAM HOME MADE's first directly managed store, has teamed up again after 25 years.

The material used for the wallet is cordovan, known as the diamond of leathers. This connects to the project name 25 years ago, which was "Diamond."

This reflects Carsten Nicolai's style of valuing the relationship of time and continuity.

The surface features JAM HOME MADE's iconic eyelets.

The attachment rotates 360 degrees, preventing the wallet chain from getting tangled.

・2 bill compartments, 1 coin pocket, 8 pockets

*Because natural leather is used, there will be individual differences in the way wrinkles appear and the degree of wear on each item.

After purchase, individual differences in aging will appear depending on usage, frequency of use, environment, and climate.

Processing is made in Japan. Each item has a different appearance due to the skilled handiwork of leather goods craftsmen.

"No two are alike" - that's the characteristic of JAM HOME MADE wallets.

Carsten Nicolai
photo: Andrey Bold

Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany in 1965, currently lives in Berlin.
Inspired by scientific reference systems, he continues to break down the boundaries between various art forms by exploring and embodying mathematical patterns such as grids, codes, errors, and random structures, as well as self-organizing phenomena.
After participating in Documenta X (1997) and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennales (2001 and 2003), Carsten's work has been acquired by private and public collections and has been exhibited in museums and galleries both in France and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Schirn Museum Frankfurt (anti reflex, 2005), the Neue National Museum Berlin (syn chron, 2005), the Berlin Gallery (tele, 2018), the Kunsthaus North Rhine-Westphalia (parallax symmetry, 2019), and the Museum Munich (transmitter / receiver - the machine and the gardener, 2022).
He also has a pen name, Alva Noto, and is one of the most famous artists in contemporary electronic music. His concerts have been held at venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Modern in London, and he has collaborated with various artists including Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Iggy Pop, Blixa Bargeld, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. He composed the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning film "The Revenant," which was nominated for Best Original Score at the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Grammy Awards. He has received numerous awards, including the Giga Hertz Award (2012, shared with Ryoji Ikeda), and possesses academic merit, having won the Villa Massimo, Rome (2007), the Zurich Art Prize (2007), Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2003), and the Ars Electronica Award (2000 and 2001, shared with Marco Pergian). In 2014, he received the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. Since 2015, he has been a professor of art focusing on digital and time-based media at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.