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.
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/