A New Layer Taiwan aims to foster new partnerships between international designers and Taiwanese craftsmen. From 2012-2016, A New Layer I was led by the Swedish designer Matti Klenell with TAF Architects, Stina Löfgren and Carina Seth Andersson. In 2017-18, the project has moved into its second phase of research and development A New Layer II: Crafting Identities/ Design Stories from Taiwan. In order to transform traditional Taiwanese craftsmanship products into contemporary design objects and furniture, the NTCRI invited Belgium-based curator Lise Coirier as Art Director and 7 internationally based designers from France, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland to Taiwan to work with some of the most talented local craftspeople on the island : Anton Alvarez (SE) Bcxsy - Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto (NL-IS-JP), Sebastian Herkner (D), Jin Kuramoto (JP), Wonmin Park (KO) and Julie Richoz (FR-CH). The result of these 7 projects with local Taiwanese craftsmen will be exhibited for the first time as part of A New Layer Taiwan at Design Curio on Design Miami/Basel from 12 until 17 June 2018.
Art Director: Lise Coirier, Pro Materia
Scenography: Julie Richoz
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A New Layer Taiwan is part of the Curio Program
Curio is Design Miami/’s newest exhibition platform which invites designers, curators, innovators and gallerists to present cabinets of curiosity throughout the fair. The program spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and emphasizes surprising installations of scientific and technological research alongside handcraft and creative production. The Curios are interspersed amongst Design Miami/’s core galleries, infusing the fair’s exhibition program with inventive snapshots of today’s design landscape.
A New Layer Taiwan Design Curio
The New Koji by Anton Alvarez (Sweden-Chile) & Zhong-Zheng Chen + Chi-Li Hsiao (Taiwan)
The Bridge Bamboo Bench by Sebastian Herkner (Germany) & Ming-An Wu (Taiwan)
The Bamboo Chair by Jin Kuramoto (Japan) & Jian Cheng Lin (Taiwan)
The Cong Collection by Julie Richoz (Switzerland/France) & Chin-Mei Huang (Taiwan)
The Clay Table by Wonmin Park (South Korea) & Wen-Yi, Kung + Chin-Mei Huang (Taiwan)
The Fruit Tower by BCXSY – Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto (Israel/Netherlands – Japan) &Zhong Jian-Fu + Wen-Yi, Kung (Taiwan)
The Neolithic Collection by Jin Kuramoto (Japan) & Zhong Jian-Fu + Clay+art & craft co.(Taiwan)
Contacts Art Director
Lise Coirier
Founder, Pro Materia
Art Director, A New Layer II: Crafting Identities / Design Stories from Taiwan
M. +32 (0)475 53 19 88 / T. +32 (0)2 768 25 10
lise@promateria.org
www.anewlayertaiwan.com
@anewlayertaiwan / #anewlayerII /#anewlayertaiwan