Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokyo, Japan

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Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka Design

9-1 Daikanyama-cho Shibuya-ku
150-0034 Tokyo
Japan

T: +81-(0)3-5428-0830
F: +81-(0)3-5428-0835

www.tokujin.com
yoshioka@tokujin.com

Biography

Born in Japan in 1967 and the winner of a large number of awards, with pieces on display at the MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt in New York, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Vitra Design Museum. Tokujin Yoshioka trained along with Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, opened his own studio in 2000, and has worked with Japanese and international companies such as Hermès, Toyota, BMW and Swarovski, designing showrooms and installations. As a result of the success of the Honey-pop paper chair in 2001, he began establishing increasingly close links with the world of interior design, developing projects for Driade, Moroso and Kartell, amongst others. The signature feature of his creations is their poetic, light, dreamlike quality; his products, interiors and installations are the result of painstaking, complex research carried out on simple materials, combined with experimental technology. The awards he has received include Design Miami, Designer of the Year 2007, the Wallpaper Design Awards 2008 and Elle Decoration International Design Award, Designer of the Year 2009.

Articles about Tokujin Yoshioka

Impressions Stockholm Furniture Fair

Impressions Stockholm Furniture Fair

2/8/2019

Impressions from Sweden's largest furniture fair, the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2019.

Yoshioka’s mirage: Mirror, mirror, on the wall…

Yoshioka’s mirage: Mirror, mirror, on the wall…

4/4/2013

Can a mirror be anything more than a mirror? Tokujin Yoshioka responds to this question in the affirmative, and with a great deal of finesse at that.

Here we go again – Groundhog Day in the furniture world

Here we go again – Groundhog Day in the furniture world

1/11/2011

It's January - and what happens in January? You know yourself. In what tends to be the coldest of all months, far too cold in fact for any serious outdoor pursuits, in Cologne Germany's "homing" event of the year takes place, namely imm cologne. So let's ask ourselves in the words of Kant: What can we know? What should we do? And: For what may we hope?

Breath and Hermes

Breath and Hermes

12/12/2009

Shop window decoration by artists and designers have a long-standing tradition. Now Tokujin Yoshioka has created an installation for Maison Hermès in Tokyo that plays superbly with the power of images.

May it grow and prosper

May it grow and prosper

11/7/2008

Flowers and trees grow - that you cannot deny, but chairs? The "Venus Chair" by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka is made of tiny crystals which form on a support structure. Design and nature could not be closer.

In their genes

In their genes

9/3/2008

In Europe, Japanese design is seen as the epitome of simplicity and poetry. On closer inspection, there are many different facets to the “typical Japanese”. By focusing a little closer on the Japanese designers themselves (such as the decidedly different young design agencies of Tokujin Yoshioka, Nendo and Nosigner) the nature of Japanese design becomes a little more clear.

Do you sometimes wear your armchair inside out?

Do you sometimes wear your armchair inside out?

11/15/2007

This is how it must feel if you were to walk into a cloud. White and fluffy. A little more than nothing and very light. You dive in and start to float. At first glance it is difficult to discern the material properties of these ethereal volumes. Feathers, flakes of foam, snow crystals, not to mention some kind of high-tech fiber - it could be many things. What seems to come from another world consists of millions of perfectly ordinary paper tissues.

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