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ColoRIng shrine table

Jo Nagasaka presents in Milan a combination of “twintsugi” ceramic work and a new version of his renowned furniture series ColoRing. #21triennale

At the 21st Triennale, Schemata presents a combination of “twintsugi” ceramic work (a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese technique of “kintsugi”), and “ColoRIng shrine table” (a new version of Jo Nagasaka’s renowned furniture series “ColoRing”).

Jo Nagasaka: Kintsugi and ColoRIng shrine table

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted with gold, silver or platinum to appreciate the joints as “landscape”, is reinterpreted through the use of latest digital technologies including highly precise 3D scanning and modeling. “Joy of joining” is expressed by turning it into twins, instead of applying gold.

The ColoRing table is made by applying three color paint layers like strata on an uneven wood surface treated by Udukuri method, the traditional Japanese woodcraft technique; then the undulated paint surface is sanded until flat to reveal tri-colored tree ring patterns. Schemata took inspiration from Tsugaru nuri, the traditional lacquer technique succeeded by craftsmen in Aomori, Japan, and the new method was made by integrating Tsugaru nuri and Udukuri. The new piece is inspired from a shrine table.