Tokujin Yoshioka Installation at Design Miami
The Design Miami recognizes Tokujin Yoshioka has the best designer of the Year this year.
The Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award recognizes a prominent, established designer whose advanced body of work demonstrates quality, innovation and influence - a visionary who changes the way we understand design.
In addition to being awarded the design Miami ‘designer of the year’ award, Tokujin Yoshioka will be exhibiting his
furniture for Driade in their new Miami showroom to celebrate the opening of their us flagship store.
Tokujin Yoshioka was born in Saga Prefecture, Japan in 1967 and has wanted to be a designer since the age of 6. After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo in 1986, he studied with Shiro Kuramata (1987-1988) and in 1988, began a working relationship with Issey Miyake that lasted for nearly two decades.
Tokujin created window displays and accessory designs for Issey, as well as shop designs and installations for the exhibition ‘Issey Miyake Making Things,’ which traveled to Paris, New York, and Tokyo. He cites this collaboration as the project that has given him the most satisfaction in his career. In 2000, he founded Tokujin Yoshioka Design. He has since designed installations and promotional spaces for Hermes, Lexus, Apple, Peugeot, Toyota, Bang & Olufsen, BMW, Audi, and Shiseido. Some of his best-known products include the Tear Drop and ToFU lighting fixtures for Yamagiwa; the mobile phone Media Skin for Au Design Project; and Tokyo Pop, Kiss Me Goodbye, and Boing chairs for Driade. Tokujin also increasingly works in limited-edition, with recent experimental projects for Vitra and Swarovski.
December 10, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0