Continuing a series of collaborations exploring the intersections of art and architecture, we are happy to show, in collaboration with Baudoin Lebon, Beyond Color and Space, an exhibition of Nobuko Watanabe in our Paris Studio.
Since 1997, the Japanese artist has been developing a distinctive body of work rooted in textiles, and more specifically, in upholstery fabrics. Nobuko Watanabe diverts this everyday material from its utilitarian function to give it a new life: through a subtle mastery of tension, folds, and curves, the fabric sheds its functional role to become sculpture. Straddling the line between deceptive flatness and real volume, her compositions exist somewhere between painting and bas-relief, between surface and space.
We believe that Architecture and Art both reshape our sense of space—one through abstract, minimal interventions in exhibited environments; the other through built form that responds empathetically to people and places. It’s a fascinating dialogue between two creative fields—art and architecture—both asking: how does form touch our senses and inhabit our lives?
