Forest of Light by Sou Fujimoto. Best Installations of Salone del Mobile 2016
24/04/2016.
COS collection. Milan Design Week 2016 [MIL] Italy
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“People meander through this forest, as if lured by the charm of the light. Light and people interact with one another, its existence defining the transition of the other”
– Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto Installs a "Forest of Light" for COS at 2016 Salone del Mobile. Photography by Riccardo Dubitante. A collaboration of the Swedish fashion retailer COS and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto on 2016 Salone del Mobile, in Milan.
Filmed at his Tokyo studio, architect Sou Fujimoto speaks to COS about the story behind Forest of Light…
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan on August 4, 1971. In 1994 he graduated in architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He established his own architecture studio, the agency Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and since 2007 a professor at Kyoto University.
He was first noticed in 2005 when he won the prestigious AR – international Architectural Review Awards in the Young architect’s category, a prize that he garnered for three consecutive years, and the Top Prize in 2006.
In 2008, he was invited to jury these very AR Awards. The same year he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) prize and the highest recognition from the World Architecture Festival, in the Private House section. In 2009, the magazine Wallpaper* accorded him their Design Award. Sou Fujimoto published “Primitive Future” in 2008, the year’s best-selling architectural text. His architectural design, consistently searching for new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.
Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect to design the annual summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2013, and has won several awards, notably a Golden Lion for the Japan Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Wall Street Journal Architecture Innovator Award in 2014.
Photographer: David Vintiner