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Mar 17, 2008

• shibo says: Tokujin Yoshioka x Swarovski
  Tags: SWAROVSKI, Ginza, Crystal, Tokujin Yoshioka
  
  SWAROVSKI GINZA Flagship Store
  
  As the key elements of the shop, the facade is covered with stainless-steel mirror reliefs. It reflects the various scenes from the different angles and sparkles brightly like a “Crystal Forest”.
  
  Inside the store, the walls are decorated with the white reliefs all over, and the whole space gets the reflections of crystals and glitters brilliantly.
  
  Dazzling crystals on the floors that are buried in the stone like a fossil, the chandelier sending out the light flow just like a waterfall on a sunny day, and the crystal stairs that is winding up getting the light reflections make an illusionary space fantastically.
  
  On the second floor, there will be an opening installation called “Shooting Star”, in which crystals make a scene just like a fall of shooting stars. It will be presented only within a certain period of time.

Feb 25, 2008

• shibo says: Tokujin Yoshioka - Best furniture designer
  Tags: Tokujin Yoshioka, Design, Furniture, wallpaper, Panna chair, Moroso, milan
  
  Tokujin Yoshioka has been chosen as the best furniture designer of the year by Wallpaper magazine. Here is the article from Wallpaper :
  
  An apprentice to Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, Yoshioka set up on his own in 2000. He’s behind the Issey Miyake shop in Tokyo, as well as exhibition space for Miyake, Hermès, Muji and Peugeot. While his furniture for Driade is acclaimed, it was his design of Moroso’s showroom in Milan this year, incorporating work such as his ‘Panna’ chair, that got the cognoscenti going.