Hasta La Ideas

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pWe’ve just received images from a href=”http://www.tokujin.com/”Tokujin Yoshioka/a of the new work he is doing for A href=”http://www.swarovskicrystalpalace.com/”Swarovski Crystal Palace/a, debuting at Milan Design Week this April. It’s so new, that it’s not yet on Swarovski’s website, but keep tabs if you’re going to Milan: exhibition information will be posted soon./p

pThe two pieces share a visual sensibility, but come from different conceptual places. The massive chandelier, “Stella,” takes its cues from a star shining outwards, emitting many rays of light in space. The “Venus” chairmdash;this is awesomemdash;is grown in an aquarium bath filled with tiny natural crystals, an extension of an earlier exploration. /p

pTo elaborate on both of these, Tokujin sent us a transcript of a QA session about this new work:/p

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1. Can you explain the concept behind your design and the inspiration for the idea?

pIn 2007, I designed a chair entitled “VENUS – Natural crystal chair.” This VENUS obtains a structure by having tiny natural crystals grow in an aquarium and makes its appearance with time as if Venus gradually emerges from water. (We put a block of soft polyester fiber in a huge aquarium with a solution, where special mineral is melted in. On the polyester fiber, natural crystal begins to form its structure and continues a gradual grow until “VENUS – Natural crystal chair” is completed.) The new work designed for Swrovski Crystal Palace 2010 is seen as an extension of my research. I wanted to have the idea of the natural crystal chair evolved by using Swarovski crystal./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/milan_design_week_2010_preview_tokujin_yoshioka_for_swarovski_crystal__16241.asp”(more…)/a
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