Desalto Element Small Tables

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Element Small tables

ELEMENT SMALL TABLES

Designed By Tokujin Yoshioka 2013

Element is a symbol of purity and poetry, the essence of the visionary designer Tokujin Yoshioka's style.

The central support, poised between the two horizontal elements, defies gravity, suspended between earth and sky and between past and future.

The heart of the Element project lies in that single central support, a metal parallelepiped that recalls in its shape the minerals and quartz found in nature, placed on an angle, poised between base and top as if to defy the laws of gravity. Magically suspended between earth and sky.

DESIGNER

TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA

Born in 1967. He worked under Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, and established his own studio, TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA INC. in 2000.

His experimental and innovative creations along with the nature and the senses, which transcend the boundaries of art, design, and architecture, are highly evaluated in the world.

He received numbers of international design awards such as "Mainichi Design Award 2001", "Cultural Affairs Section of Government of Japan, Encourage Prize 2006", "Design Miami Designer of the Year 2007", "Elle Deco International Design Awards Designer of the Year 2009", "TOKYO Design & Art ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS Artist of the Year 2010.

Some of his most important works are exhibited as a part of permanent collections in the world’s well-known museums such as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Vitra Design Museum.Some pieces of “Water Block” are permanently exhibited with masterpieces of Monet, Cézanne and Renoir in the Impressionist Gallery at Musée d’Orsay, Paris.