Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec – TAJIMI CUSTOM TILES TOKYO 2022
Two years after its 2020 debut, Tajimi Customized Tiles unveils a collaboration with Parisian designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. The mission, initially unveiled at Milan Design Week 2022, will now be proven for the primary time in Japan, in an set up at LICHT gallery in Tokyo. Operating from October 29 to November 6, the exhibition will function new, never-before-seen works that showcase the spectacular prospects of custom-made tiles.
Tajimi Customized Tiles Tokyo 2022 might be on view from October 29 to November 6, at LICHT gallery in Tokyo
all pictures courtesy of Kenta Hasegawa
revealing the limitless potential of tajami tiles
As a part of the exhibition and collaboration, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (discover extra right here) created ‘Sosei’, a collection of vase-like objects whose components are made utilizing the particular clay extrusion methodology, typical of Tajimi tile-making. Geometric parts are hooked up to a cylindrical physique to create compositions of geometric shapes, colours, and glazes. The harmonizing deep colours of typical Japanese glazes are a tribute to the great thing about Japanese ceramics.
Though the exhibited objects have been created as separate tiled items, they arrive collectively to type a fancy set up within the gallery area. The exhibition focuses on tile-making methods and the richness of glaze expression whereas providing a perspective past conventional considering, revealing the wonder and limitless potential of Tajimi tiles.
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s ‘Sosei’ is a collection of vase-like objects whose components have been made utilizing the particular clay extrusion methodology
‘Sosei’ by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec follows earlier collaborations between the bespoke tile model and designers Max Lamb and Kwangho Lee. In Lamb’s ‘Working Tile,’ the designer reveals what makes Tajimi a novel manufacturing web site and what TCT hopes to realize. He designed a collection of modular, three-dimensional tiles that may tackle myriad types, with the ensuing objects functioning as vases, sofas, tables, benches, or partitions. He used typical clays with attribute earthy qualities and particular glazes with ambiguous colours, harking back to the traditional Japanese tiles. His manufacturing methodology is die-casting, which permits high-precision three-dimensional shapes and patterns.
In Lee’s ‘Tide’, the designer was impressed by one of many typical manufacturing strategies in Tajimi – clay extrusion. He created a module with a bit within the type of a looped line, that may be extruded to completely different lengths so as to assume completely different features. The modules will be stacked horizontally or vertically to type varied primary objects, like partitions or benches. When the modules are aligned, the repeated loop has an virtually hand-drawn high quality, creating patterns harking back to knitted cloth.
the exhibition focuses on tile-making methods and the richness of glaze expression
though the exhibited objects have been created as separate tiled items, they arrive collectively to type a fancy set up within the gallery
the exhibition options new, never-before-seen works that showcase the spectacular prospects of custom-made tiles
mission data:
title: Tajimi Customized Tiles Tokyo 2022
artist: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
in collaboration with: Tajimi Customized Tiles
location: LICHT, 2F 3-18-10, Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
dates: 29 October – 6 November 2022
myrto katsikopoulou I designboom
nov 01, 2022
