lørdag den 27. oktober 2012

Alvar Aalto Stool 80 year anniversary

Yaeko and I were invited to the 80th anniversary of Alvar Aalto's Stool at Artek in Tokyo 

Yaeko and Saki her assistant

Yaeko and me 

Mirkku Kullberg, Anni Ailinpieti & Mr. Masatoshi Tamura

Alvar Aaltos Stool and the birthday cakes - the little Stools were made of candy and were delicious!

Mirkku - the CEO of Artek - making a wish

Wonderful speech 

The Tamura Design family and Yaeko

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Masatoshi & Nao Tamura

Nao Tamura Designed this anniversary Stool with 80 rings of history


Beautiful Design - I want this one for sure!











torsdag den 25. oktober 2012

Japanese inspiration

At Faux Arts Design inspiration is everywhere
The skilled craftsmen use traditional Japanese patterns as well as traditional European style patterns



















tirsdag den 23. oktober 2012

IFFT Demonstration of decorative painting


Salon Tokyo 2013 host Yaeko Kurimata put a great effort into bringing decorative painting to people of Tokyos' attention at the IFFT convention.

These walls were a demonstration of decorative painting and the staff of 
Faux Arts Design made live demonstrations in front of an amazed audience.

Flyers about Salon Tokyo 2013 were passed out to everyone including interior designers, architects, designers and other trade people. 

 These walls impressed everyone at the convention - 25.000 passed by these...

The small squares were painted with decorative techniques during the convention 


 IFFT is a high end interior and design convention 



 Many different techniques was used at the murals


This collage of decorative techniques were a combination of faux painted textiles with traditional patterns

 The first day 8.348 people visited the convention

The second day 8.576 people visited the convention 

The third day 8.106 people visited the convention 

Faux Arts Design Tokyo did a great job of representing and communicating Decorative painting and Salon Tokyo 2013




The film crew were very kind and curious - they spend a lot of time with the Faux Arts Design stand and demonstration area  

Many of the 25.000 people stopped and watched the demonstrations


Thank you for reading my blog and please visit the Salon Tokyo 2013 webpage for more information

mandag den 22. oktober 2012

NEWS from Salon 2013




Salon Tokyo 2013 was represented at International Furniture Fair Tokyo (IFFT)
 by Faux Arts Design who put a lot of work to promote Salon Tokyo 2013 at the convention.


 The IFFT was hosted in this convention center

Here is the three Salon participants who represented Salon Tokyo 2013
Cathy Conner - USA, Heidi Zilmer - Denmark, Yaeko Kurimata - Japan


The Salon 2013 theme is "East meets west" & sharing
and we already do..  

The work of Salon participants at the stand - the easel was used for live demonstrations of decorative painting

East meets west in the Danish Design chair with Japanese painting  

Salon 2013 will be well organized - Yaekos Japanese staff did a wonderful job.
They all worked hard to get perfection  

Many people came and wanted to hear about Salon - they are all looking forward to next year when Salon will be the biggest decorative painters event i Japan   

Craftmanship - Yaeko Kurimata
Faux Arts Design