Salone 2016

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One of the exhibitions at Milan Design week which impressed me the most was a very understated one, by the well-chosen name “Subtle”. The theme was paper and it was organized by the Japanese Takeo Paper Co. Especially in our day and age of the computer, in which the art and culture of writing letters… Read more »

Japanese Contemporary Design & Craft Exhibition

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A selection discovered by AMEICO in recent months in Japan which showcases traditional and contemporary work by a variety of designers and manufacturers throughout the country. Also shown, for the first time in the U.S., the monumental political poster Sheltered Weaklings, designed by Takashi Kono (1906-1999) in 1953 at the height of the cold war.