SEPTEMBER 10(FRI)-29(WED) 2010
MUJI YURAKUCHO
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INFOS YURAKUCHO 3F ３−８−３
MARUNOUCHI CHIYODA-KU TOKYO
When we stripped it bare, it became MUJI.
Come the weekend, and somewhere or other in Tokyo,flea markets are set up, with knick knacks ranging from antiques to those that are little more then garbage lined up.
The items lining the stalls at these markets are yesterday's implements for daily life made by people in the past.
The fun in visiting such markets lies in the fact that you may just unearth the future buried in the past.
It was at such a flea market that industrial designer Seiji Ohnishi and Keiichi Sumi.
Ohnishi had just come to the realization that aluminium items for daily life had became invisible to everyone.
Ohnishi asked for Sumi's help in collecting aluminium items, and also in the act of "Re-producting" them. It was from this that the "Bare Design"project began.
In the world of secondhand goods, originals are respected,while intentional alterations are
loathed. There is a culture of classifying dirt and wear as "flavor" and viewing these with esteem.
To Sumi,who fixes sny parts that are broken, washes them off and combines equivalent part
from other items in his poetic bricolages, there was no such hang-up with respect to the conventions of the world of secondhand goods.
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