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Sticks by Emmanuelle Moureaux for Issey Miyake
Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux of Tokyo has created an installation from interlocking coloured sticks at three Issey Miyake fashion stores in Tokyo.
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Entitled Sticks, the project was inspired by the game of Mikado or Pick-up Sticks, where players try to remove individual sticks from a scattered pile without disturbing the others.
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The installation was in place until last week.
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Photographs are by Nacasa & Partners.
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Here's some more information from Moureaux:
Sticks by Emmanuelle Moureaux
Balance out of balance
ISSEY MIYAKE women, men, PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE.
411 sticks connecting the three spaces
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Their colors and shadows float and overlap, creating a new space with a new appearance.
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Like flown away into space and floating there, the sticks spread all around the space. As if time stands still, “a balance out of balance” is created.
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The concept of sticks was inspired by a European children’s game “MIKADO*”, which was often played before. The sticks randomly positioned as inspired by MIKADO create tensions and chance balances, which were designed to become tangible forms.
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It was designed to be structurally balanced in spite of its unbalanced appearance.
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*A competitive game for neat-handedness by using bamboo sticks. You grab a bunch of sticks, let them stand on a desk vertically and open the hand quickly; this is where the game starts.
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The sticks fall apart, the participants take turns to pull a stick quietly without moving the other sticks.
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The next person takes turn when the other sticks are moved even if only slightly.
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The same process repeats, and the participants are ranked based on their scores at the end of the game.
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Title: sticks
Design: Emmanuelle Moureaux
Time: 2010/8/5(thu)~8/25(wed)
Location: ISSEY MIYAKE (women,men) / AOYAMA, TOKYO
PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE / AOYAMA, TOKYO
Sponsor: moph INC.
Cooperation:ISSEY MIYAKE INC., ONE_78
Support: MAXRAY
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