Contemporary Paper Sculpture
A forest, folded by hand.
Naoki Onogawa builds tree-like sculptures from tiny folded cranes. Look closely and a familiar silhouette becomes an accumulation of individual acts.
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Photography & Artistic Collaboration
A photograph through someone else’s glass.
For Hikari, Kensaku Kakimoto photographed through glass works by Ritsue Mishima. The glass is not only the subject. It becomes part of how the image is made.
Contemporary Sculpture & Industrial Craft
The factory inside the sculpture.
Jobe Burns’s Laying Vessel carries metalworking knowledge into contemporary sculpture. The contrast between its rusted shell and red interior is only the beginning.
Fibre Sculpture & Material Intelligence
A vessel made mostly of air.
Gjertrud Hals’s Scala gives thread a sculptural presence. Open structure, rather than a solid wall, allows the vessels to occupy space.
Glass Art & Living Design
An old outline with a new surface.
The 2026 Aalto Bubble Vase keeps a familiar contour but changes the way light moves through it. The anniversary is less interesting than the glassmaking.
Lacquer & Artistic Reinvention
The sea, painted in lacquer.
Shibata Zeshin used lacquer for more than the surface of a box. A late panel of breaking waves shows a craft changing the scale of its ambition.
Contemporary Craft & Material Transformation
The knot made from leather and lacquer.
Nan Wei’s Knot-Loving looks unexpectedly solid. Its red, looping form begins with cow leather, linen and lacquer rather than ceramic or carved stone.
Cut Glass & Contemporary Craft Collaborations
The cut that becomes light.
A 2026 TOKIMEKI collaboration places Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko glass above a machined metal base, giving the cut surface a different role in a room.
Murano Glass & Living Craft
The glass that catches the light.
Venini’s Tiara Luce uses a quilt-like glass surface to make light tangible. A traditional forming technique becomes something encountered in an ordinary evening.
Contemporary Woodcraft & Expanded Scale
The bucket you can step inside.
Shuji Nakagawa scaled the logic of a wooden bucket into a tea room. The result asks whether a declining everyday craft can find a larger future without losing its structure.
Contemporary Tapestry & Image Translation
A film frame becomes a tapestry.
At Aubusson, a scene from Spirited Away becomes a monumental woven image. The unexpected discovery is the new work required when an animated world must be rebuilt in thread.
Decorative Arts & Contemporary Material Collaboration
The wall between velvet and metal.
Levantina brings Tessitura Bevilacqua velvet into Materica’s metal-surface world. Its appeal lies in the friction between two material traditions, not a generic claim of Venetian luxury.