2014 ISSEY MIYAKE LONDON FLAGSHIP STORE BY TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA

London

Made by:
Tokujin Yoshioka

Architonic

Ambivalent - history and future
People feel admiration for two types of time; unpredictable future and old history which has been cultivated for long.

In the ISSEY MIYAKE London new flagship store at Brook street in London, it is expressed that this futuristic contrast between the texture created through long time and the aluminum dyed blue like a fabric.

As like Issey Miyake's creation does, the idea of combination of technology and hand work is appeared in the store.

Photos: Antony Crolla
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SWAROWSKI WINGS OF SPARKLE BY TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA

Basel

Made by:
Tokujin Yoshioka

frameweb

Stand Shimmers Like a (Swarovski) Diamond

It was impossible to miss Swarovski’s gigantic sparkling stand during Basel World in Switzerland.

Almost 23,000 LED strobe lights flickering across a structure made from faceted hexagonal elements made Tokujin Yoshioka’s stand design for Swarovski at Basel World appear to shimmer like a diamond. Instead of merely designing a surface, Yoshioka says he wanted visitors ‘to experience light itself, as if entering into a dazzling crystal.’

The stand was surrounded by a 7-m-high curved wall measuring 155 m in circumference, which was clad in more than 250,000 reflectors. Inside were 40 freestanding showcases – also designed by Yoshioka – which reiterated the dominant crystal motif.