Mikimoto Japan Headquaters' ETERNAL LOVE Show Window

Eternal Love...a romantic ambience created for Mikimoto Jewelery's windows display in their Japan headquaters...sweet color scheme, dreamy flower petals that appears floating + rings that romantically emerged from those pinkish rose lying above the elegance marble base...

a+. mikimoto via japan design net
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Banba Stool & Banana Seat from Tomita Design

Banba design by Tomita Kazuhiko on 2oo7 for Arcade, Italy is the stool that looks like a planter box for balcony or pool-side where it does look ideal for. The volumized fabric on top is comfortable + useful to pick up the lid.

'Born in Nagasaki in 1965. Awarded in MA RCA in London in 1992 after BA industrial design of Chiba University in 1989. 2.5 dimensional design studio established in 1993 becomes recently Tomita Design Milano.

Many tableware and furniture of Tomita Design are based in Japanese way of living in modern European context, being aimed for global & long use.

Tomita is capable in construct new brands by applying his creative experience in various fields from graphic to architecture. Tomita became an art director of COVO in 2000, and of NUSSHA in 2004. His masters are Vico Magistretti and Yoshio Akioka. He is a visiting lecturer in Industrial Design in Rome University.'
- Tomita Design.

I actually love the sketches for 'Banana' .'> but the seat doesn't look bad either. The 'Banana' which is weaved in double layered organic fine rattan, grabs smoothly on the weight of the person seating on it.

Note: I do hope that i could get more information on this 2 lovely products.')

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Bouquet by Tokujin Yoshioka

I love this! Bouquet is an armchair with sublime simplicity design by Tokujin Yoshioka. The chair "blooms" on a slim, chrome-metal stem that blossoms with white or delicately-coloured "petals" made of hand-folded fabric squares sewn one by one, with great care and infinite patience, to completely cover the internal surface of the egg-shaped, wrap-around shell.

“I got the idea for Bouquet from the installation I created last October for Moroso's New York showroom. I used about 30,000 paper tissues to recreate a cloud-like atmosphere. The Bouquet makes people who sit on it happy, just as a bouquet makes the person who receives it happy. The vibrant, delicate colours trigger different sensations in each of us.”
-Tokujin Yoshioka.

The making of Bouquet...

'Tokujin Yoshioka, is a great “couturier” with a meticulous eye for detail, he is a designer whose delicate, poetic, elegant designs help us to dream.
He likes to astonish us by producing surprising effects from simple, almost banal objects which he interprets and uses in an extraordinary way by means of his ability to see beyond and to reinterpret the world through the characteristic poetry and harmony of Japanese culture.' -moroso

a+. moroso via tokujin yoshioka
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VENUS- The Natural Crystal Chair That Grows in An Aquarium

"A form born from nature has a beauty that exceeds our imagination."
- Tokujin Yoshioka.

Venus, a natural crystal chair that was 'breed' in an aquarium using the laws of nature. The tiny crystals 'make its appearance over time as if the goddess herself gradually emerges from water.'

Venus embodies a beauty born in coincidence with a state-of-art that pushes the boundaries of creativity.

Photographs taken by Masaya Yoshimura from 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Exhibition 4. Installation named 'Second Nature' which is directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, the creator of VENUS.

The making of VENUS...

Read my post on Tokujin Yoshioka's Tofu Light-fixture.

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L House- White House With Pink Accent & A Fascinating Library

L House, designed by Philippe Steubi Architekten GMBH. At first glance, the pink accent on this very white house catches my attention but I am much more fascinated by the house library after flipping through the photographer, Dominique Marc Wehrli's work of art.

"The three-sided glazing of the library in the ground floor is mirrored-glass. Depending upon time of day and lighting conditions you can see the stored books or the reflected graden. The uppper floors are implemented in bright lime rendering and the glazings in nature-anodized aluminium."

- Philippe Steubi Architekten GMBH

'This expressive volumetry is a result of the particular form of the plot and the requirement of the constuctor to place a maximal volume on the plot. The space allocation plan was incorporated in this scuptural body by the method of hollow out.

The concept was to string together the requested spaces to one movement going through the house: stretching, extending, narrowing, grinding out form the mass, to a coherant sequence of spaces according to the principle of the enfilade.

Each room receives its completely specific character in size and form (conical entry area with wardrobe and guest WC., large cubic double-storey entrance hall, triangular loggia as color area, double-storey inside rounded library which is downstairs three sided glazed , etc.) so that when entering and going through the house various and surprising space experiences occur.The ground floor walls consists of large washed-out concrete elements (white carrara marble balls with white cement) which are interupted by space-high glazings.'

a+. philippe steubi architekten gmbh
a+. dominique marc wehrli via digs digs
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