Tokujin Yoshioka: the V&A keeps his work, London keeps looking

The Victoria & Albert Museum holds work by Tokujin Yoshioka — alongside the MoMA and the Centre Pompidou — which is what happens when a designer treats material as the message. Trained under Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, studio of his own since 2000, he has built a chair from paper, a bench from glass and a torch for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, while designing for Cartier, Hermès and Kartell.

The way into a working interior runs through Mutina: his hand is part of the ceramic roster La Mercanti carries — stoneware for receptions that want museum thinking underfoot, not on a plinth.