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Tokujin Yoshioka receives Creator of the Year award at Maison & Objet

Tokujin Yoshioka announced as Creator of the Year at Maison & Objet


Dezeen Wire:
the organisers of Paris design show Maison & Objet have announced Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka as this year's Now! Design à Vivre Creator of the Year. An exhibition of his Crystalized Project will be held at the fair from 20 to 24 January 2012.

Here's the announcement from Yoshioka:


TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA now! design à vivre 2012 CREATOR OF THE YEAR

Tokujin Yoshioka receive the award of now! design à vivre 2012 CREATOR OF THE YEAR by Maison & Objet, Paris. In honor of this award, Tokujin Yoshioka's exhibition is held at Maison & Objet.

Crystalized pieces adopting the randomness or unexpectedness of nature surpasses human's imagination.

The "Crystalized Project," on the reflection of "Relationship between power of nature and human beings," tries to create and reveal a new portrait of nature.

In the exhibition at Maison & Objet, a crystalized chair "VENUS - Natural crystal chair," crystal paintings grown by the vibration of music, and new pieces, which has not ever been exhibited in the world, will be exhibited.

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