As furniture fair Salone del Mobile returned to full capacity after the coronavirus pandemic, a number of Japanese brands chose to hold exhibitions during Milan design week for the first time.
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New design brand Mino Soil unearths the creative potential of Japanese clay
New design brand Mino Soil unearths the creative potential of Japanese clay
The first in a series of exhibitions, ‘Archeology of Mino: in collaboration with Studio Mumbai’ explores the creative potential and ‘brutal beauty’ of clay from the Mino region and marks the debut of ceramics brand Mino Soil
Sample cubes of different raw clays, made by clay manufacturer Kaneri Toryo, fired in different methods to show the wide range of colours of the local clays. Studio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain selected the cubes to be shown in the ‘Archeology of Mino’ exhibition, for which larger versions of the cubes were manufactured