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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.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

Issey Miake store - London - Tokujin Yoshioka
Antony Crolla

Issey Miake store - London - Tokujin Yoshioka

Designer Tokujin Yoshioka currently seems to own the idea of crystalline precision and reductive beauty. His practice spans interiors, furniture, elaborate installed environments and objects. Having collaborated for two decades now, fashion designer Issey Miake and Yoshioka have developed a house style for the boutiques which evolves with the clothes in a remarkably sympathetic way. This new London flagship store balances carefully retained elements of the original building structure, often completely undressed and raw, with meticulously lit surfaces of exceptional finish and texture. The anodized iridescent blue panels (apparently fabricated in Germany) are so colored as to seem to float somewhere between this world and the next. The whole space has an effortless lightness despite the "weight" of forms and materials. Yoshioka has used furniture of his own design to create gentle tensions between the visible build and the invisible forces which act upon it. Miake's rather post-Noguchi lighting is also used here to animate the voids around which Yoshioka has so deftly wrapped light and texture. This is a master class in the design of seductive spaces.