Tokujin Yoshioka

[4] He has designed for Issey Miyake and other global companies such as Cartier, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Toyota, and Lexus, and has been announcing new works at Salone del Mobile Milano[5](world's largest international furniture exhibition) in collaboration with Italian furniture brands, including Kartell, Moroso, Glas Italia and Driade.

Active in the fields of design, architecture and contemporary art, he creates works under the theme of light and nature, which also reflect the Japanese idea of beauty.

During the production process, a block made of fibers is placed in a paper duct and put in oven as if baking a bread and by adding heat, the form of chair is shape memorized and completed.

Together with works of representative Impressionists, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 10 'Water Blocks', glass bench is permanently displayed.

[9] At the 54th Venezia Biennnale International Art Exhibition, Glasstress 2011, the collateral event of the 54th La Biennale di Vennezia, the glass tea house – KOU-AN was presented as an architectural project and in 2015, was built on the stage (observation deck) of Shogun-zuka, a mound of Shogun, Seiryu-den, which is a precinct of Tendai Sect Shoren-in Temple.

The torch was designed by Yoshioka to be built in the shape of an iconic Japanese cherry blossom (sakura) flower using the aluminium extrusion manufacturing technology employed to produce Shinkansen bullet trains.

Tornado / Design Miami 2007
Water Block (2002)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011 Water Block (2002)
Snow / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2010 (1997)
Honey-pop (2001)
VENUS – Natural crystal chair (2007)
Rainbow Church (2010) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2013
Glass Tea House KOU-AN (2011) at Shogunzuka Seiryu-den, Kyoto 2015–2017
Glass Tea House KOU-AN (2011) at Shogunzuka Seiryu-den, Kyoto 2015–2017