Danielle Demetriou is a British writer and editor who moved from London to Japan in 2007. She writes about design, architecture and culture (for newspapers, magazines and books) and lives in an old machiya townhouse in Kyoto.
Zelkova wood furniture. Underwater-inspired lighting. Tree-inspired textiles. Minimalist iron chairs. Japanese taiko drum-like terrazzo tables. Modern expressions of ancient hemp. Vivid abstractions from thousands of wood skewers. Japanese design left its own unique creative imprint on, with a raft of brands projects across the spectrum – from furniture and art installations to lighting and textiles – in the spotlight across the city.
An exploration of the beauty of forests – from both a macro and a micro perpsective – lies at the heart of The Mind Landscape Collection, a layered new collaboration between Hosoo, a centuries-old Kyoto textile maker, and Michele de Lucchi. The new textile collection blurring the boundaries between wood and fabric was showcased in the intimately elegant confines of Hosoo’s Milan showroom in Brera.
Works ranged from the Felice chairs, balancing a clean-flowing lightweight iron silhouette with the organic warmth of leather details and meticulous craftsmanship, by designer Kazuteru Murasawa; to the intimate geometry of a Wall Deco series, hanging iron wall panels designed by Fumie Shibata.Fotica.
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