Jin Kuramoto: Material Shifts
(adam štěch) There is no better way to enjoy your tea at five than in the wooden set designed by Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto. He gave an ordinary cup a sculpture-like quality thanks to timeless morphology. ...more
Naoto Fukasawa: Paper Forever
(adam štěch) Master of minimalism and simplicity, Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa, has designed paper products for the Japanese producer of Onao stationary products, which one will not want to throw away after using them. In fact, Fukusawa has endowed paper with an ever-lasting character. ...more
Keiji Ashizawa: Crates
(jiří macek) Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa presented the Drawer Shelf dresser, which looks very minimalist and simple at first sight, at the Superprototype exhibition at the Design Week in Tokyo. However, its realm is dance. ...more
Sam Hecht: Designing the Seating Rules in the Tokyo Underground
(jiří macek) The Table Bench Chair, which the prominent British brand of Established and Sons presented in Milan last week, is a real hybrid. Sam Hecht, from the Industrial Facility studio, develops both intuition and the mathematical principles of our behavior in a remarkably simple connection. ...more
Tokujin Yoshioka: Venus and the Crystals of Memory
(jiří macek) In the prestigious 21_21 Design Sight gallery in Tokyo, situated in the building designed by the phenomenal architect Tadeo Anda, one can visit the Second Nature exhibition until January 18th 2009. You might witness the crystallization of armchairs or a new definition of movement and living space. Apart from the works by Tokujino Yoshioka, the art director and author of the whole concept of the exhibition, one can see conceptual works by the Campana brothers, Yukio Nakagawa, Ross Lovergrove, and Makoto Azuma. ...more
