LACQUER, GOLD AND TEA CEREMONY: THE SECRETS OF JAPANESE NATSUME
The beauty of exceptional Japanese craftsmanship is concentrated in a single object that fits in the palm of your hand: jet-black urushi lacquer wi...
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A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF ASIAN BLUE
Inspirations, creative workshop, collaborations, selection of contemporary Asian crafts around indigo blue, stories to go further, travelogues... dive with us in the Blue Moods of Asia.
INDIGO
Indigo, a colour, a dye, a spirit. A whole blue world, from India to Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Bhutan and Korea, unites Asia in the same quest for beauty and invites to travel into Blue Moods.
Marukyu Shoten x Pauline Androlus
Limited Edition: Tenugui, "échappées bleues" series
This series is an exceptional work of abstract art, its patterns were imagined by Pauline Androlus, talented French designer of objects and interiors, and it was made by the craftsmen of Marukyu Shoten, Tokyoite house founded in Nihonbashi in 1897, manufacturer of yukata (summer kimono) and tenugui with the chusen craft technique.
"échappées bleues" series
Japanese Tenugui
Ikémato for Atelier Ikiwa
Japanese Crafts Traditions and French creativity
Laurence Vouillemin is the talented designer behind Ikémato. For Atelier Ikiwa she has created a small series of vintage indigo fabric pochettes, which celebrate traditional Japanese craftsmanship half-way between sewing and origami, the preservation and reuse of vintage textiles, and the purity of creative work.
Discover her journey
Ikémato for Atelier Ikiwa
Pochettes from vintage indigo kimono
In Asia, following the roads to indigo
Stories of patience, of working with the hand, and of miracles taking place.
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SUNGWOO CHOI'S LEAF ART
Sung Woo Choi's leaf spoons, made from wood patiently carved in his workshop in the north of Seoul, fill us with wonder: they touch something deep ...
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