Tokyo Designers' Week celebrated its 20th anniversary with its first exhibition in Milan, promoting Japanese style and culture and supporting Japanese talent internationally.

 

Toshiyuki Kita, exhibition director, said: "We decided to present Japanese design in Milan under the title Tokyo Designers' Week in Milan. I think that design will be one of the key words at an international level in the very near future. We wanted to take advantage of the 20th anniversay of Tokyo Designers' Week to underline and emphasize the role of design in the world, and especially the role of Milan in the world of design."

 

Image left: Design in Tokyo banner at the entrance to the Minguzzi Museum.

 

 

The Bulb Knob (image right) by Yuki Matsumoto for Mazroc  is subtle yet very clever. The first place anyone touches when entering any room is the door knob. Matsumoto's inventive door knob is a light in itself.

 

The shape of the light bulb lends itself perfectly to being a door knob, and the knob is made of phophorescent glass. It stores sunlight enery stored during the daylight hours and emits a gentle luminous light to invite you into a darkened room.