The event is accessible: there is no entrance fee and we have a simple application process for designers and shops that want to get involved. Photo about Shoji, Traditonal Japanese door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood. “We wanted to change this and, instead of occupying one expensive location, use the city as a stage, teaming up with design and fashion stores. “There have been many design festivals in Tokyo but none were city-wide or on a level with those in London, Milan or New York,” says co-founder Mark Dytham. Tokyo has hosted design events in the past: Designers Saturdays in the 1980s and 1990s and later, Tokyo Designers Week. It allows daylight to enter a room without excessive heat from the sun or loss of privacy. This Japanese style of construction has been used for generations.
Cassina displays Soft Props, Konstantin Gric’s modular sofa, and Hay, the Elémentaire chair collection by high-profile French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Traditional rice paper windows are made by stretching thin, translucent rice paper over a wooden frame. But once machine-made roll paper became was available, it. in the past, hand-made laid paper was also transparentized by adding drying oils and resins.
Most nineteenth-century translucent paper is thin, machine-made wove paper and is made from either 100 rag or chemical wood pulp. It also exhibits work by more established names: Perrier-Jouët is presenting a colourful piece by flamboyant British designer Bethan Laura Wood and Kazunori Matsumara. Tracing paper has excellent optical transmission properties. Japanese Prints Nepalese Prints Metallic Tissue and Translucent Coloured Paper. Designart Tokyo is a multifaceted fair that spotlights contemporary design, art, fashion, technology and gastronomy in more than 80 venues. A unique paper where a translucent screened paper is merged with a cotton weft - Handmade in Nepal Style Translucent Weft PXCV Sheet size 48x70cm Weight: 130gsm Purchase any 10 Nepalese Papers from this collection to get 20 off.