Architect Kengo Kuma and KOKURA SHIMA SHIMA are launching “KUMASHIMA”, new textile brand

KOKURA SHIMA SHIMA INC. will release Kokura-ori’s new textile brand ”KUMASHIMA” to a global audience; “Leaf Vein” inspire the four design patterns that collaborate with architect Kengo Kuma on May 18, 2023.

The natural material cotton, the colours of the motifs of plants and trees, and the beauty of shadows derived from sunlight emerge like leaf veins.

隈研吾氏と小倉織を復元・再生した染織家 築城則子氏によって、テキスタイルブランド「KUMASHIMA」が誕生しました。「葉脈」をテーマに、自然素材である木綿、草木をモチーフとした色、光からうまれる影が美しく浮かび上がります。発表会では、「KUMASHIMA」を用いた「Time & Style」の家具をご紹介します。素材が持つ手触りが五感へ伝わります。

About KUMASHIMA

Kengo Kuma, a world-renowned architect, and Noriko Tsuiki, a textile designer who has restored and revived Kokura-ori textiles. The encounters between these two professionals resulted in the creation of “KUMASHIMA”, a collaboration textile that transcends the boundaries between different fields.

This textile brand was created for the main use in architecture, interior design and furniture, which until now had been considered difficult to use with traditional Japanese textiles.

The creation process continued with “the power of plants” as the common language between two professionals.

Noriko Tsuiki’s approach to utilising the colours of nature is similar to that of Kengo Kuma, who uses indigenous methods to blend architecture into the environment. It did not take long for them to share the same image of what they were aiming for.

It is a new expression of Japanese textiles, created by two professionals fascinated by the abstract nature of stripes.

The brand is the successful fruition of the world of stripes KOKURA SHIMA SHIMA has been pursuing.

KUMASHIMA

世界で活躍する建築家、隈研吾氏と小倉織を復元・再生した染織家、築城則子氏。
両者の出逢いにより、分野を超えたコラボレーション「KUMASHIMA」が誕生。これまで、日本の伝統織物では活用が難しいとされてきた、建築、インテリア、家具をメイン用途として誕生したテキスタイルブランドです。
「植物の力」 を共通言語としての創作活動が続きました。自然の色彩を活かす築城氏の姿勢は、土着的な手法で建築を環境に溶け込ませる隈氏に通じ、目指すイメージの共有に長い時間はかかりませんでした。縞の持つ抽象性に魅了された両者が生み出した、新たな日本のテキスタイル表現となっています。小倉 縞縞の追い求めてきた縞の世界が結実したブランドです。

KUMASHIMA exhibition

Dates: 18 May – 6 June, 2023 (Open every day during this period)
11:00 – 19:00
Venue: Time & Style Atmosphere
Address:4-27-15 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel 03-5464-3205

Talk Session by” Kengo Kuma and Noriko Tsuiki and Ryutaro Yoshida
(Time & Style CEO)”
Date: 18:00-19:00, 18 May, 2023
Venue: Time & Style Atmosphere
RSVP to attend the press conference and ceremony.
Application deadline: 10 May 2023

For more information about KUMASHIMA, please visit the dedicated website below.
https://kumashima.com/

KUMASHIMA exhibition

会期:2023年5月18日(木)~6月6日(火)(会期中無休)
11:00 – 19:00
会場:Time & Style Atmosphere
東京都港区南青山4-27-15
TEL 03-5464-3205

Talk Session
隈研吾×築城則子×吉田龍太郎(Time & Style代表)
日時:2023年5月18日(木)18:00 – 19:00 (受付 17:00-)
会場:Time & Style Atmosphere
ご予約 https://www.timeandstyle.com/kumashima/

KUMASHIMAについては、下記専用サイトより詳細をご覧ください。
https://kumashima.com/

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