This year themed around the concepts of “house” and “play”, the city’s premiere showcase of new design — featuring both individual artists and major studios and corporations — stretched across multiple venues and sections, as well as satellite events like “Design Tide Tokyo 2012” and others held in Roppongi Midtown.
Photo: Rachel Carvosso
Photo: Rachel Carvosso
Docomo's wall of phone designsPhoto: Rachel Carvosso
Photo: Rachel Carvosso
Sou Fujimoto Architects' design for Beton Hala Waterfront CenterPhoto: Rachel Carvosso
Photo: Rachel Carvosso
The refreshments counterPhoto: Rachel Carvosso
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama's 'Shi-an/meditation', a design for a hermitage-style room made of paperPhoto: Rachel Carvosso
Kawada's popular nanoblock toysPhoto: Rachel Carvosso
Born in the year of the horse in upmarket Chelsea, she spent the majority of her childhood in rural Devon playing bows and arrows and making clothes for the fairies out of small flowers and shrubbery. Studying Art in Oxford she discovered a world of magic and mystery that inspired writers such as CS Lewis, Tolkien and more recently Phillip Pullman. Various roles have been assumed over the ensuing years - artist, teacher, social worker, writer. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and drawings and researching Environmental/Social Arts.
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