Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio

Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara launched his studio in 2002. Today, Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio (TYS) offers comprehensive proposals encompassing interior design, product design, brand creative direction, and art direction. TYS's clients include Kvadrat, 1616/Arita Japan, Karimoku New Standard, Skagerak, and Kimura Glass, and their work are part of the permanent collections at the National Centre for fine Arts in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

With VAGUE (meaning 'wave' in French), their studio and gallery spaces in Kobe, Japan, and Arles, France, they carry out cross-cultural and international projects based in Japan, France, the UK, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. Flowing with the organic momentum of a wave, VAGUE is a home for a fluid spectrum of collaborative projects, such as exhibitions, food research and residencies.

Life and Decay by Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio

By observing the ever-changing nuances found in nature's cycles, an appreciation of the dynamic transformation of colours as time progresses — from the lively emergence of growth seeds and their fruitful yield to the subsequent withers and returns to the earth. Like the forest's graceful weather, the rocks and minerals undergo a transformative decay, even their appearance changes, the colours change. How bacteria react to specific stimuli, elicit reactions that influence and modify each other. Across the spectrum of time, whether spanning days, a single year, or even a century, the diverse range of temporal frames, reveal the fleeting nature of both time itself and ever-changing aspects of nature. Within this impermanence, new nuances emerge and paint a living testimony of the eternal evolution of colours.