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kazuhiro yamanaka : as long as I'm dreaming ..............................................................................................................................................................
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| kazuhiro yamanaka --- as long as I'm dreaming 'the light is made by simple optical fibre and light emitted from a light source box passing through inside of the fiber and came out from the end of the fibre. also surface of the end part which is shaped, light bulb is sand blasted to make the light visible. in the dark, those lights look like floating in the air. I always try to create maximum impact with minimum use of material. what I wanted to express using the 'as long as I am dreaming' (title of the ligh installationt) is explore essence of light itself. in my dream, light is floating in the air without any cables or supports and also completely and beautifully free from the gravity. and the shape of the light bulb is an icon of the light.' --- at colette's conceptual store in paris 'I didn't want to show it as a product to buy and I didn't want advertise myself. so I refused to put my CV next to the installation. it always destroy something important. in museum, many people see painter's name and title and short explanaion before see the picture itself. that is what I don't like. I want to make the lighting installation a gift for parisian who passed the colette window at night. it was perfect place. after I finished mounting the light at colette I found a dog stopping in front of the window looking at my lights. how fantastic!!' --- my philosophy designers should contemplate the void that surrounds objects, the space between objects, and relation between those objects. I believe furniture - chairs, tables, lights etc. - could be like a constellation of stars, and we could make lines to connect them three dimentionally and thereby construct a specific story. as a designer, I believe it is my task to create those stories. --- my experience in the design field 'I have exhibited at milan fair, 100% design, ambiente etc. since 4 years and as a result, I got a lot of offer from companys asking me to design. --- see kazuhiro yamanaka at the salone satellite / milan furniture fair 2002 http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/milan_02/kazuiro.html I understand that it is good to accept every offer to make my name famous especially for a young unknown designer like me. but I am very stubborn about quality of product and philosophy of company and I have refused most of them. but 2 years ago I met managing director of boffi and he liked my product and I agree with his philosophy and happy with the quality of their products. a planar light fixture consisting of a halogen lamp mounted at the edge of a hole in a sheet of alucobond (layer of plastic sandwitched between two layers of aluminium). the metal surfaces conduct electricity, lighting the halogen lamp without wires. when the sheet leans against a wall, light is emmited between the wall and the sheet, creating a serene glow. boffi showed my light at this year's milan fair. that is my first product produced by company. it will be on sale soon. now I am designing a chair and a light. those will be even more experimental. they will be exhbited at the milan furniture fair next year (2003). kazuhiro yamanaka born 1971 tokyo, japan studied 1992-1995 BA interior design, musashino art university, tokyo 1995-1997 MA furniture design, royal college of art, london --- awards 1994 &1995 winner, future office furnitured design competittion, tokyo 1999 crafts council bursary award, london 1999 finalist, 100%design award, london 2000 finalist, design report award, milan 2000 finalist, 100%design award, london --- on show 1995 'interior design' ozone gallery, tokyo 1996 'getyerhandsdirty' royal college of art, london 1997 'summer show' royal college of art, london 1998 'bare' o-porto gallery, london 1999/2000/2001 '100% design' fair, london 2000 'ambiente', frankfurt fair 2000/2001/2002 'salone satellite', milan furniture fair 2002 'mouvements modernes', paris gallery 2002 installation at colette store, paris ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? ------- |
 kazuhiro yamanaka and wife  'as long as I am dreaming', light installation design by kazuhiro yamanaka, 2002  'as long as I am dreaming', light installation design by kazuhiro yamanaka, 2002  'as long as I am dreaming', light installation at colette store in paris, 2002  'as long as I am dreaming', light installation at colette store in paris, 2002 |
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