LIGHT BOX STUDIO AOYAMA

h concept + marcs international
UNITED EXHIBITION

1F-Under the theme "Shizen To Shizen" - Nature in the city, a variety of new products and existing products come together to create a fun space in this spacious venue. The line up includes: a new addition to Kaomaru series; a new type of paper clip "Photo Hanger"; "Kusa"; a salt and paper dispenser "Talking" by Nendo; a tray "Kabon" by Kazuhiko Tomita.
2F-marcs international will exhibit its own brand 'duende' launched in 2002, accompanied with Normal Timepieces' new clock series by Ross McBride, and new designs by Swiss designers. 'ei' will join us to exhibit new Dutch made bags using ecological materials. We will sell bags and some original products during the event, and hope you will find a very unique piece.

ESPACE 218 / L'eclaireur

No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips

The Netherlands has a lot more to offer than windmills, cheese and tulips. Design, for instance. All over the World, Dutch designers are renowned for their conceptual abilities and their ability to translate these concepts into designs that are suitable for mass production. ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ puts work on display that is typical of this Dutch design mentality. 'No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ will present 21 works by 19 designers from The Netherlands.The objects vary from furniture and interior accessories to household items and jewellery, and will be presented as a still life, like those familiar to us from the ‘old masters’. ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ is part of NL4 Design, a programme of activities initiated by Brainport Eindhoven, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the BNO (the Association of Dutch Designers) and Premsela (the Dutch platform for design and fashion) to create an unequivocal and recognisable international profile for the Netherlands as a design country and to promote the export of Dutch design.

CIBONE AOYAMA

serious mellow

CIBONE will again show pieces from the CIBONE COLLECTION which launched at last years Design Tide with the concept non-design design and the aim of providing furniture and accessories that add beauty to everyday life. The new addition to the collection this year is a series of enamelware pieces by Hella Jongerius. Hella worked closely with top Japanese enamel company, Ando Shippo, taking a modern approach to this traditional craft. CIBONE will also show the new moooi boutique sofa, the inspiration for which lies in the world of fashion; new furniture and ceramics by Piet Hein Eek in his meticulous and distinct style; and a spectacular new chandelier by Stuart Haygarth.

TIME & STYLE EXISTENCE

NEXT

Time & Style focuses on down-to-earth lifestyle. They have a number of new products - towels, mats, blankets and bed linens - to be launched this season. A new range of rugs by a Dutch maker, Danskina is just a thing to enrich people's homes. Their usual line up of products and table wares will be shown in new materials and details, and will dress the space together with the new range of fabrics. Time & Style offers products with colors and textures that can easily be adapted to our everyday life and that add sense of well-being.

WISE・WISE Omotesando

Sustainable Lifestyle

Sustainability : Valued Material + Respected Craftsmen + Quality & Durability + Global Respect & Humanity.
Wise・Wise is a leader in procuring and providing the most enduring andconsistent lines of lifestyle products - both now and for future generations to come. Enhancing your life and making it more balanced and comfortable is our mission.

SEMPRE AOYAMA

SEMPRE NEWS

Sempre News,” a book which brings together Sempre’s products from the last 11 years has been published for this exhibition. In May of this year, Sempre also held a special exhibition, “Tomitaria,” in Milano, that received a lot of attention by presenting “Gruli,” a new work by Kazuhiko Tomita, a new work that has a new shape and color unlike anything that has been produced before. The material is Alcantara, produced by the Dyloan company, which works with Dolce & Gabbana, Armani and others. Other than the designer, who is Japanese, Gruli is 100% made in Italy. Let’s play with Gruli.

Higashiaoyama

Paulistano Armchair / Paulo Mendes da Rocha

We are exhibiting the Paulistano Armchair, designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The Paulistano Armchair was designed for the lounge of the Paulistano Athletic Club that was planned by Rocha in 1975. In 2005, Objekto of Marseilles, France, restarted manufacturing the chair for use around the world. Please come and sit on this masterpiece from the Plitzker-award architect.

ID

IDEE EXHIBITION - Dawn 2008

"Japanese Modern Master" is a project run by IDEE to revive masterpieces of architects and designers of old times. "Suns & Daughters of Life" is a introduction of collaborative works between IDÉE and designers such as Marina Bautier from Brussels, Belgium and FULGURO. from Lausanne, Switzerland. The event will be the preview of what IDÉE has planned for 2008 including their first batch of original furniture collection.

HOYA CRYSTAL TOKYO

HOYA CRYSTAL TOKYO NEW OPEN

Hoya started rebranding with the theme "luxury leading edge crystal from Tokyo" last year. We produce the highest quality crystal using techniques developed for manufacturing precision optical glass. We combine technology with skilled craftsmen and famous artists such as Namaiki & Keiji Ito, artists who represent contemporary Tokyo culture. We open up a whole new world for crystal.

SPACE INTART

Play with your colours by MC Living

MC Living Co.,Ltd., a professional company of not only planning and design but brand building, production control, logistics and retail support for Home Furnishings, have an opportunity to introduce fantastic designs in Design Tide Tokyo 2007 collaborating with talented designers from Sweden, Swizerland and Japan.

Paul Smith SPACE

The Chair Families

A new chair design from Paul Smith to mark 15 years of Elle Deco has arrived! In the early stages of the design, Geraldine Larkin, Paul Smith’s textile designs was assigned to the project to design this unique chair, of which only 15 were made, one for each of Ell Deco’s years. Five real couples and families from London modeled for the chair, which has distinct characteristics.

246 CAFE < > BOOK

HEISANN NORWAY CAFE@246 CAFE < > BOOK

This exhibition really digs into the culture of Norway, including Norwegian design, art, lifestyle, history, environment, tourism, nature, ecology, music, and more. At the Norwegian Embassy is a café with a truly educational component that will let you know all about Norway. The roots of design can be found in nature and food culture, which you can experience first-hand at the café.

Lloyd's Antiques Aoyama

cutting edge

We live in an age without discomfort, and have many of the things we need. The things we want are not necessarily new things, but things that suit our tastes. We like to look at cutting edge design through an antique filter. Taking this as our theme, we have designed several boutiques, restaurants and bars, and have worked Line-inc in international collaborations to create unique, timeless avant-garde spaces.

メゾン ギャルリィー・ヴィー

Guilt Free

With traditional furniture, people have always had the tendency to straighten up things out in an untidy room, lining up the corners and making everything look nice. However, with Chris Kirby’s furniture, an untidy room is the norm, which can give us a sense of happiness, and perhaps free us from the obsessive need to have everything in just-so order.

Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama : Creator-in-Residence/Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS) art caf

Wednesday Lounge Artist Talks & Workshop

TWS Aoyama is hosting Wednesday Lounge as a series of exchanges and presentations by resident creators. In collaboration with Design Tide, TWS will hold a talk by Moritz Waldemeyer, and a workshop by Heath Nash. In addition, Abake, a designer group based in London will twist the TWS Shibuya's cafe, Kurage to a pub Jellyfish.
*Please book in advance.

SHOP DETAIL

DOMESTIC 2008' / 現代美術二等兵 駄美術

Domestic is recognized for having a good eye for artists. They have chosen the following artists for their latest work "wall drawing collection" : Tado, desert Rose, Dylan Martorell, Rinzen/Hanna Werning, Tania et Vincent, eBoy, Klaus Haapaniemi, Neasden Control Centre, Ich&kar, Kustaa Saksi, Furi Furi, Hi!, Pierre Marie, matali crasset, GenevieveGauckler, Jeremyville.
Detail produced GENDAI BIJUTSU NITOUHEY, Kagotani Shane and Katsuhito Fujiwara. Their "DABIJYUTSU (meaning junk art)" consists of small art works that make you smile and give you a glimpse into Japanese culture.

ICHYS GALLERY

Katsuki Tanaka's "Kaohame Panoraaaama!"

Katsuki Tanaka's "Kaohame Panoraaaama!". This exhibition is actually two separate exhibitions of Katsuki Tanaka’s design, with a secret third exhibition to be announced. Visitors to the exhibition will be photographed for a special panoramic photograph.

【SHI RO KA SHI】

Star Light Navigation

“Sound and light.” The sound everyone hears before being born into this world is the wound of a mother’s heart. The sounds of the external world can be heard through the mother. When one is born, the light of the world can then been seen. The light that has been given to us never changes. Light is one of the most familiar things for us, and yet it is not easy to grip and has a mysterious element. Rakelmejal shows the importance of light through shapes. The space of “sound and light” is expressed by the speaker’s fusing light together with time.

yasu gallery

PLAY + WORK / WORK + PLAY

The exhibition Work + Play / Play + Work, is presented by a team of first and second year students from KIDI Parsons, a design institute located in Kanazawa and affiliated to Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.

Student teams reflected on the opposing concepts of “play” and “work”, focusing on specific related situations they had either experienced or researched, and then analyzed the apparent contrary nature.

The goal was then to produce a new device, scenario or situation for adults that combined these two dualistic ideas in an unorthodox manner. A successful result would break people free from routines and stimulate the imagination, thus promoting relaxation, innovation and creativity.

*英語文書の下に、学校情報を記載お願いします。

学校法人キディ学園
専修学校 KIDI Parsons
920-0856 石川県金沢市昭和町12-6
http://www.kidi.ac.jp/

void+ alternative

Regreen Project

Regreen is a Tokyo / Yamanashi collaboration to design a greener lifestyle closer to nature. The project is born out of a shared sense of purpose and confidence that a vast, verdant natural environment and ideal location for urban living and business only within 2 hours from central Tokyo can serve both communities. The ideas offered by the Regreen team of Tokyo creators and a local Yamanashi development firm include buildings that pulse with the rhythm of nature, plus a variety of programs and lifestyle support options designed to add pleasure and comfort to everyday living. A highly evolved project requiring minimal new development and offering excellent freedom of choice, Regreen is ready to drive Tokyo forward, by going back to nature.

Theory

PLAY IN THEORY

Theory, celebrating 10th anniversary of brand's establishment, exhibit installations created by three artists at "gathering space",an art-space, and on each floor of Theory's flagship shop; a "rehabilitation" design to return to nature by [nosigner], an installation that feels like a puzzle or child's playing blocks by [CounterCraftz], and an organic design using styrene and urethane by [FLANEUR design].

A to Z caf

Bon Appetit! from Oishii-Kitchen Project

The latest work in the “Oishi Kitchen Project.” We present the “warousoku,” from the design unit "e.m.", in collaboration with“kodaikokuya”shop in Fukui.
www.o-kitchen.com

Art-U room

Dog Chair

Dog Chairs: A chair has four legs. What do four legs remind you of, if not a dog? There are other similarities. Both a dog and a chair can have different characters depending on its size and proportion ; just as there are different kinds of dogs such as Chihuahuas, Shibas, and German Shepherds, chairs range from baby chairs, to lounge chairs, to thrones. Embracing such a thought, we tried to make this chair have a dog-like presence that is physically affectionate and always makes us feel relaxed. (Atelier Bow-Wow) / Production support by graf.

ars gallery

DEROLL Commissions Series 1 : Box

This exhibition brings together work on the theme of “box” from five designers active in the fields of architecture, art, and design: Junya Ishigami, Ryuji Nakamura, Hideyuki Nakayama, Yuko Nagayama, and Makoto Yamaguchi. Each design came up with a new concept and design based on this theme.

CELINE Omotesando

DISPLAYSTHETICS

DISPLAYSTHETICS presents an overwhelming yet inviting hybrid reconfiguration of C

TOKYO HIPSTERS CLUB

Anarchy Macintosh

Centered around his new chair ‘anarchy mackintosh’, this exhibition shows Kimura’s newest art works created with the theme of ‘greatest anarchy, greatest ecology’. Bringing together form and function, the chair is the first in the world to be made solely of magnesium, a material prized not only for its lightness and strength but ecological value.

AREA Tokyo
www.area-japan.co.jp

routine work overdose / AREA Tokyo

Interior design meets images in a playful way. Many people nowadays have lost a sense of play. We are made tense by having to face reality and daily life, and having a sense of play in our free time can cure our woes. Area Tokyo is trying to re-conceptualize our living spaces. In this collaboration, the Shimura Brothers, who work in film and have presented their work at the Cannes film festival, add their sense of play to furniture design. The exhibition space includes a 47 square-meter display window, through which images will be projected at night-something that just has to be seen. Some people have overdosed on the creature comforts of daily life. This is the only facility for treating people who have overdosed on daily life. You can think of the glass front of the exhibition space as scanning patient’s illnesses in order to treat them, and they get injections of lost dreams and chance in order to treat their illness.

LISN AOYAMA

「Noi Shigemasa Exhibition ~The glass」

Shigemasa Noi, who designed the glass interiors for the Lisn Aoyama building, presents his now project, using glass and a variety of other materials. With cooperation from Kurokabe (www.kurokabe.co.jp), KiKU(www.kiku-web.com).

MHT

Rock, Paper, Scissors

"Fantastic Plastic Groves" : are 14 sceneries-in-motion, setting Marie-Helene de Taillac jewels in synthetic vegetals worlds. MHT shop design by Marc Newson will be the exclusive venue hosting this singular display. "Short dream of an office lady" : is a special set for the opening party ( 2/11 ) which is a global installation re-interpreting the office world.

MOGRA

CHINDOGU exhibition in MOGRA

CHINDOGU=ART+INVENTION+DESIGN
Unfoutunately, DESIGN become just "STYLE" in Japan. It always come from marketing data or well known star designers on fashionable magazine. CHINDOGU destroy such a boring air and give us the question "What is design?".

EX'REALM

TIPSTARR vol3 : INDONESIA

TIPSTARR is an Asian culture introduction project run mainly by EX'REALM, which is administrated by Yamaha Motor. By introducing the cutting edge Indonesian youngster's culture to Japan, we plan to relay the attractiveness of Indonesia, and elicit interest in Indonesia.
TIPSTARR will concentrate on the PEOPLE of Indonesia focusing on the greater Jakarta & Bali area, gathering information on Indonesian architecture, products, music, life, food, health & beauty, fashion and art with an unique perspective, and present this involving Yamaha Motor.
Events : Distribution of Asian culture magazine “TIPSTARR”; Special Indonesian food menu at cafe; Photo exhibition, and display at cafe on the 1F and event space on the B1F.

GALLERY SCENE galleryscene.com

(ma ka ta / ma ka ta 2007)
(Dame Design / Fukidashi / Balloon / Fumetti)

(ma ka ta/ma ka ta 2007)
We repair broken things. Not things that just happened to break, but things which we broke intentionally and then fixed. It is difficult to repair something completely, and return it to its original state. Although we couldn't repair things perfect, we find that we are delighted to construct something new from the broken thing. When we were kids, we had a wonderful and exciting time to reconstruct things. It's like just "a designer's way of playing" we think.

(Dame Design/吹き出し/Balloon/Fumetti)
A request of "Fukidashi /Balloon/Fumetti"
We are reserved and am shy and am modest, and is a Japanese transmission method "AUN transmission" originally? I want you to understand it. . But I cannot say by words. . I prepare such a "quality of Japan" to "a balloon" of comics.

giuliano Fujiwara (www.giulianofujiwara.com)

Dual City Sessions: Null by artless

We present works from a collaboration between the null group in Japan and graphic artists from Singapore, in which each designer takes concepts from the culture of their home country. This exhibition was coordinated by upsetters inc, and brings together the works of many designers in a unique collaboration.

ARAKAWA GRIP SHOP & SHOWROOM

ARAKAWA GRIP Exhibition 2007

New designs utilizing the Arakawa clip, a metal hook
fastener.

SPACE EDGE / Space D

CONVERSION 01

With CONVERSION as a theme, Takuya Matsuda and Akira Fujimoto will exhibit sports products which are familiar with consumers. Looking through the purity and beauty of the primitive object which is created only for extraordinary reasons, we will introduce the harmony of new aesthetic within our everyday life.

MARIOS LEFT TANKER

WIGS

This project was made by Italian photographer SILVIA PUNTINO as a collaborating with MARIOS. The concept is playing with identity, personality, fascism, transformism and hiding themselves. Presentation : A photo of a WIG shop in Milan will be printed on wallpaper in the original wig shop size and will be displayed on one of the shop wall, a make up mirror,Polaroid camera and 4 different wigs will be available to the visitors to play. 4 photo of the original project will be displayed.

Gallery Conceal

"1/4"

One quarter of a chandelier is shut in a small box made of two-way mirrors. When switched on, innumerable chandeliers much bigger than the box appear inside this magical box. This is the most compact chandelier, and this device expands your room endlessly.

Kahemi Cafe

Dry Water

Water is essential to our life.
We are opening the exhibition whose main theme is "moisture" which is brought by the water.
Please come and see this unique exhibition.

JAM HOME MADE & ready made INLET AOYAMA

Honey Trap : mavo

Honey Trap : This term comes from the espionage that a woman spy carried out during the Cold War. It’s a project on which, by adding new purposes to the original meaning and function of the form, we can weave new values, distances, time, and relationships into a “story”, leaving it more than a mere “product”. Let’s make our romance and life more sexy and humourous and ENJOY.

Gallery DAZZLE

A view attached to a journey.

This is the third exhibition in a series that brings together the work of three illustrators. In this series, they present illustrations based on the theme of “journey.” The illustrations were made especially for this exhibition, and the artists are also planning to make illustrations based on a film about the travel of their choice. There are approximately 25 works included in this exhibition, and all are on sale.

OFFICE

LAMP-LIT DINNER at OFFICE

This exhibition presents cutlery holders and lamps, using light and shadow in a brilliant way. An oil lamp is used to clearly show the texture of the items in this installation.

GALLERY LYSTIG AOYAMA

Kazunaga Sakashita (CRITIBA) / Takayuki Senzaki (TETUSIN)

SAKASHITA presents this aluminum product exhibition. SENZAKI / Product Origami as a design motif. Materials are reborn as a solid (product) through an act (play) of folding a plane (graphics).

Omotesando niigatakan nespace

KNIT CAP CUP 2007

The "Knit Cap Cup 2007" was a knit cap design contest which accepted applications from anyone online. I first applied in May and went through a long process that lasted almost a half year. Of all the entries, 50 were selected by vote to be produced and sold online, with half of the proceeds going to the designers. This exhibition includes all 50 winning designs.

MA by So Shi Te

A sheet by alekole

Interior shop "MA by So Shi Te" which prepared the modern item which took in a Japanese folkcraft. "alekole" which creates an experimental thing. The shop shows four works such as their "Ceramics of the paper", "Curtain with patterns take from Japanese hiragana". The work which featured the theme of "a sheet" approaches by a physical sense.

Austrian Embassy Commercial Section in Toky

Neo Chandelier Project

This is a special project to create cutting edge crystal chandeliers by bringing Swarovski Japan, em design, Daiko, Maxray and Matsushita Electric Works together.
The exhibit also includes “Crystal Sweet Suite”, a recreation of a luxury hotel room in which all of the interior items, down to the finest details, are dazzlingly decorated with Swarovski crystals.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT EXHIBITION 2 DIRECTED BY TAKU SATOH "water"

How can design provide a useful tool with which to navigate our social and natural surroundings? A team of individuals from a wide spectrum of fields examined many of the ways in which humans and water intersect. The goal of this exhibition is to offer the visitor an all-encompassing sensory experience using design as a medium through which to offer a new perspective upon water.

Mori Art Museum

ROPPONGI CROSSING 2007 : FUTURE BEATS IN JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART

“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions organized by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 and for the second exhibition, features 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories.

SFT GALLERY

MY TOWN IN MY HOME

With fashion,art, and product design in mind, fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata and Knit artist Mafuyu have created " home wear ", a collection of decorative pieces which can also be fun for the kids. The collection was first shown at the 2007 Arnhem Mode Biennale and is now presented in Japan for the first time.

P-HOUSE

A.F. VANDEVORST

The combination of dynamic yet delicate design of AF Vandevost is always a conversation subject in. This is their first exhibition in japan. The rich and colorfull collection line will be presented along with live preformace. There will also be a screening of a film of his collections in the last 10 years .

Royal Norwegian Embassy

HEISANN

Together with the Tide exhibition, you will further experience the Norwegian design, art, lifestyle, history, environment, nature, ecology, music and more. The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo arranges series of events. 1st November is the 'Open Day' for you to experience Norway by the exhibit of design products. 2nd Nobember is the 'Seminar Day' for you to learn Norwegian design history from the famous professor Shimazaki and to feel Today's Norwegian design through a panel discussion with young talented designers.

TAKE AND GIVE ARTS TOKYO

Link @ Tokyo

This is the exhibition by designers group "Link" which formed by students of Tohoku University of Art & Design master's course.The works exhibited at Designersblock London are collected here.TAKE AND GIVE ARTS opens as a gallery from 11:00 to 19:00, and as a bar from 20:00.Many of the works in this exhibition will be on sale.

MARUCUBE

UNG @MARUCUBE

UNG - a group of young Swedish designers - presents their version of designs for the next generation in the dead centre of Tokyo!
The collection will fill the space of the 1st floor of Maru-building, Maru Cube.
You will see nothing but works of the very best young designers Sweden has to offer!
There will be a talk-show on 2nd Nov.

(marunouchi) HOUSE

Swedish Gallery@ (marunouchi) HOUSE

Marunouchi-House has just opened this Spring on the 7th floor of Shin-Maru-Building.
The building that is placed on the street of downtown Tokyo will be hijacked by Swedish artists
such as 'Don't Feed The Swedes', and will turn into a gallery that is full of excitements including live painting!