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Jo Nagasaka

Jo Nagasaka is a Japanese artist and designer world-renowned for his fresh approach to traditional crafts. He adapts techniques in innovative and distinctly contemporary ways to create uniquely bold designs across a variety of different mediums. His new collaboration with Artek celebrates a centenary of close diplomatic ties between Finland and Japan.

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Jo Nagasaka is a Japanese artist and designer world-renowned for his fresh approach to traditional crafts. He adapts techniques in innovative and distinctly contemporary ways to create uniquely bold designs across a variety of different mediums. His new collaboration with Artek celebrates a centenary of close diplomatic ties between Finland and Japan.

Originally designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933 and reinterpreted by Jo Nagasaka in 2019, the ColoRing Stool 60 is crafted by Artek, available in a range of colourways and exclusively available at The Conran Shop in the UK to coincide with London Craft Week 2019.

The design celebrates 100 years of strong diplomatic relations between Finland and Japan and makes up part of Artek’s FIN/JPN Friendship Collection, created in collaboration with Japanese and Finnish designers.

Crafted in Finland using solid Finnish birch wood, the seat is finished with a soft-grained pine veneer and transformed using Nagasaka’s innovative ColoRing technique. Up until now, ColoRing had involved a time-consuming, fully-manual process created by fusing the traditional Japanese techniques of udukuri and tsugaru-nuri, but thanks to Artek’s revolutionary manufacturing techniques, the design can now be bought to a wider audience.

Jo Nagasaka

Stool 60 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

Products by Jo Nagasaka

Stool 60 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

Bench 153B ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

Tea Trolley 901 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Red & Turquoise

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

Jo Nagasaka

Stool 60 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

Products by Jo Nagasaka

Stool 60 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

Bench 153B ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Collection

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

Tea Trolley 901 ColoRing Jo Nagasaka Red & Turquoise

by Alvar Aalto

for Artek

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