{"id":16436,"date":"2025-04-13T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16436\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:59:11","slug":"tokujin-yoshiokas-sculptural-ice-chairs-melt-at-milan-design-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16436\/","title":{"rendered":"tokujin yoshioka’s sculptural ice chairs melt at milan design week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tokujin Yoshioka sculpts ice Chairs for Milan Design Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Japanese artist Tokujin Yoshioka<\/a><\/strong> sculpts a series of chairs<\/a><\/strong> made of frozen water, designed to be displayed and slowly disappear during Milan Design Week 2025<\/a><\/strong>. Installed at the historic Palazzo Landriani in the Brera district, Frozen explores the ephemeral beauty of water crystallized into form. The exhibition, presented in collaboration with Grand Seiko Europe, continues Yoshioka\u2019s long-standing investigation into immateriality and nature.<\/p>\n

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At the center of the installation<\/a><\/strong> is Yoshioka\u2019s latest work, Aqua Chair, a luminous, transparent sculpture<\/a><\/strong> that evolves over time. Fabricated using a proprietary process that begins with an ultra-transparent block of ice, the chair emerged naturally from a special technique of slow-freezing. Ice, capable of refracting and emitting natural light, gives form to a chair whose silhouette gradually changes, shaped by light, wind, and temperature. By the end of the Milanese event, the sculpture is set to transform into an organic composition, then slowly vanish. Measuring 120 cm wide, 100 cm deep, and standing 89 cm tall, the 850 kg form captures the refractive qualities of water. Aqua Chair, or the Sculpture of Light, gives rise to an experience that transcends materiality, inviting reflection on the beauty and energy of the natural world while celebrating its essential significance.<\/p>\n

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all images courtesy of Grand Seiko<\/a> and Tokujin Yoshioka<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tokujin Yoshioka\u2019s Frozen Connects Light, Water, and Time<\/p>\n

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Artist<\/a><\/strong> Tokujin Yoshioka approaches water not merely as a visual motif but as a substance in transition, elemental, reflective, and inherently temporal. By working with crystallization, the designer evokes natural transformation as a method of shaping material. Light, temperature, and atmosphere become collaborators in the formation of the work, underlining Yoshioka\u2019s concept of \u2018Sculptures of Light.\u2019 The collaboration with Grand Seiko Europe<\/a><\/strong> creates a dialogue between the Aqua Chair and the brand\u2019s Spring Drive timepieces, which are displayed alongside the installation. The pairing is grounded in a shared philosophy, one that finds inspiration in natural phenomena and the unceasing continuity of time. Spring Drive\u2019s glide-motion seconds hand mirrors the quiet rhythms found in nature, offering a mechanical expression of Yoshioka\u2019s fluid forms.<\/p>\n

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Within the broader theme of Fuorisalone 2025, \u2018Connected Worlds,\u2019 the project embodies a convergence of craftsmanship, innovation, and environment. Yoshioka\u2019s contribution reflects an approach to design where technology and material dissolve into the experience of nature itself. On view through April 13, Frozen invites visitors to engage not only with physical objects but also with the intangible forces that shape them, such as time, light, water, and silence.<\/p>\n

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Tokujin Yoshioka\u2019s Aqua Chair begins as a block of frozen water<\/p>\n

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Frozen is installed at the historic Palazzo Landriani in Brera<\/p>\n

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as Milan Design Week unfolds, the sculptures slowly melt away<\/p>\n

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formed by slow-freezing, the chair evolves under light and air<\/p>\n

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water is treated not just as a motif, but as a living material<\/p>\n

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Tokujin Yoshioka posed with his ephemeral Aqua Chair<\/p>\n

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light, wind, and temperature help shape the sculptures<\/p>\n

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Frozen installation explores the beauty of ephemerality and change<\/p>\n

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over time, the chairs transition into an organic compositions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokujin Yoshioka sculpts ice Chairs for Milan Design Week \u00a0 Japanese artist Tokujin Yoshioka sculpts a series of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,11099,4022,77,11100,11101,11102,11103,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-16436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-chair-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-interactive-installation","14":"tag-milan-design-week-2025","15":"tag-sculpture","16":"tag-tokujin-yoshioka","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114330544854250402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}