Get to Know: Japanese Designer Yuko Nishikawa
Yuko Nishikawa specializes in in contemporary ceramics that bridge the world of fantastical lightscapes and whimsical art.
Yuko Nishikawa is a Japanese designer specializing in contemporary ceramics, which she makes from her studio on Grand St. in Brooklyn, New York. Her work bridges the world of fantastical lightscapes and whimsical art, and are inspired by as much. Take You See A Sheep (above and below), for example, a lighting collection inspired by The Little Prince and Model T Frankenstein: bulbs are housed in hand-built ceramic shells and strung by a thin metal wire so the shells appear to levitate in an open room.
The shells were made by paper fiber in a wet clay body so they are lightweight and easy to hang. Nishikawa used a coiling technique to create the uneven surface and irregular shapes, cut holes in the clay once it dried up, then applied color over them and fired them in an electric kiln.
Then there’s the quartet collection entitled Nico and His Cousins, made up of two pairs of right- and left-handed hand-built ceramic table lamps.
In explaining the inspiration behind this, Nishikawa said, “I like my hands…it’s simply because I can make things that did not exist just a moment ago appear in my life, like breakfasts, drawings, and ragtime tunes. I can make tools to make forms to make lamps to make space to make shows to make friends to give tools to so they can also make things.”
The ceramic globes balance on thin ...
Yuko Nishikawa is a Japanese designer specializing in contemporary ceramics, which she makes from her studio on Grand St. in Brooklyn, New York. Her work bridges the world of fantastical lightscapes and whimsical art, and are inspired by as much. Take You See A Sheep (above and below), for example, a lighting collection inspired by The Little Prince and Model T Frankenstein: bulbs are housed in hand-built ceramic shells and strung by a thin metal wire so the shells appear to levitate in an open room.
The shells were made by paper fiber in a wet clay body so they are lightweight and easy to hang. Nishikawa used a coiling technique to create the uneven surface and irregular shapes, cut holes in the clay once it dried up, then applied color over them and fired them in an electric kiln.
Then there’s the quartet collection entitled Nico and His Cousins, made up of two pairs of right- and left-handed hand-built ceramic table lamps.
In explaining the inspiration behind this, Nishikawa said, “I like my hands…it’s simply because I can make things that did not exist just a moment ago appear in my life, like breakfasts, drawings, and ragtime tunes. I can make tools to make forms to make lamps to make space to make shows to make friends to give tools to so they can also make things.”
The ceramic globes balance on thin ...
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