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In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

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Aesop Kyoto - Simplicity
Simplicity

Aesop Kyoto - Simplicity

Once more the clear policy of bespoke stores for each new location has enabled Aesop to express something of the spirit of Kyoto through this elegant, beautifully detailed interior. The Japanese designers Simplicity have drawn subtly on vernacular devices such as the hanging cloth screens and the boldly minimal groupings of contrasting elements and materials to say something about the relationship between the product and the city site. Using Aesop's distinctive bottles sculpturally to counterbalance the fragility of the black screens is masterful. Interesting to note that Simplicity evoke Tanizaki's In Praise Of Shadows as inspiration here.

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"Then the lid is briskly lifted, and this pure white freshly boiled food, heaped in it's black container, each and every grain gleaming like a pearl, sends forth billows of warm steam - there is a sight no Japanese can fail to be moved by."
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows