(H/B) TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA DESIGN

Παρουσίαση

Tokujin Yoshioka came to furniture design through art and fashion. A set designer and creator of installations, he began collaborating with Driade in 2002 with his intense experiments in the application of unusual, lightweight materials such as paper to the furniture design repertoire. Reinterpreting thousand year-old Japanese crafts in an unusual iconographic and functional manner, he brought oriental accents to the field of international design, and a fresh approach to its technological and industrial potential. The results revealed the dream-like, secret dimension hidden behind the prosaicness of 'things'. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword
Driade and Tokujin Yoshioka by Elisa Astori
Introduction
Yoshioka-kun and I by Issey Miyake
Survey
A poetics of the totality of existence by Ryu Niimi
Transparency
Motion
Reflective movements by Ingo Maurer
Material
Yoshioka Pop and Paola Antonelli
Light
The inspiration of Tokujin by Kozo Fujimoto
Profile
Index
Credits