PIGMENT van Warehouse TERRADA wint German Design Award 2018
– Architect Kengo Kuma creëert internationaal geroemde ruimte –
TOKIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PIGMENT, het lab voor traditionele kunstmaterialen van Warehouse TERRADA, is door de internationaal vermaarde German Design Awards 2018 uitgeroepen tot winnaar in de categorie Excellent design voor communicatie (Binnenhuisarchitectuur).
PIGMENT is een rijk geoutilleerde faciliteit voor creativiteit die de kenmerken van een laboratorium, een werkplaats, museum en winkel combineert met hoogwaardige en zeldzame kunstmaterialen. Zo beschikt het lab over 4500 kleurstoffen, lijmsoorten en kwasten voor kalligrafie en schilderkunst.
De beroemde Japanse architect Kengo Kuma ontwierp het interieur. De ruimte oogstte alom lof met zijn opvallende plafond, jaloezieën van gebogen bamboe en kasten vol kleurstoffen in alle tinten die de gehele binnenwand bestrijken.
Deze bekendmaking is officieel geldend in de originele brontaal. Vertalingen zijn slechts als leeshulp bedoeld en moeten worden vergeleken met de tekst in de brontaal, die als enige rechtsgeldig is.
Warehouse TERRADA’s PIGMENT Receives “German Design Award 2018”
– Space created by architect Kengo Kuma receives international acclaim –
TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PIGMENT, the traditional art materials lab operated by Warehouse TERRADA was announced as a Winner in the Excellent Communications Design Category (Interior Architecture) of the internationally renowned German Design Award 2018.
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PIGMENT (Photo: Business Wire)
PIGMENT is a comprehensive facility for creativity that includes aspects of a laboratory, workshop, museum and retail store, with a lineup of high-quality, rare art materials including pigments in 4,500 hues, glues, and brushes for calligraphy and painting.
Renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed the interior of the facility, and the space, featuring a striking ceiling outlined by curving bamboo blinds and pigment shelves that cover an entire wall with gradations of color was highly acclaimed, leading to the award.
Bolstered by this international acclaim, PIGMENT will continue to play the role of a hub for transmitting cultural value by handing down traditions in art materials and painting techniques.
[About the German Design Award] http://www.german-design-award.com/en/
An international design award given by the German Design Council since 2012. In 2018, it comprised three categories: Excellent Product Design, Excellent Communications Design and Universal Design.
Participation requires a recommendation from the German Design Council.
The awards are categorized into the “Gold” award given to the best of each category, the “Winner” title awarded to especially accomplished works, and “Special Mention” awarded to accomplished works.
[About PIGMENT]https://pigment.tokyo
PIGMENT is an art materials research lab connecting artistic expression both with tradition and the future, and develops the ingredients for that expression – colorants and adhesive vehicles for mixing paints, calligraphy brushes and paintbrushes – in a unique creativity center fusing an art academy and a museum with an art materials store. With pigments in 4500 hues, 200 varieties of aged ink sticks, 50 different vehicles for paint blending, it offers materials of rare and surpassing quality created with techniques from all times and places. Also, PIGMENT is taking unique approaches to research, educate and popularize “art materials,” their “usage,” and furthermore “expression” produced by this harmony.
[About Warehouse TERRADA]
Company Name: Warehouse TERRADA
Main Business: Preserving/Safekeeping Business and Related Business
Representative: CEO, Yoshihisa Nakano
Address: 2-6-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
Foundation: October 1950
URL: http://www.terrada.co.jp/
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