strangers

A body of glass works, shown at Spiral Omotesando — a collaboration in material and judgment.

Product Design

Exhibition

Artwork

Engineering

Service

Exhibition & Object

Role

Design collaboration

Year

2025-2026

Location

Spiral, Omotesando, Tokyo

"strangers" gathers glass works at Spiral, Omotesando, and asks the room to hold them as one encounter, not a set of objects. My layer was the thinking beneath it — what the work is about, and how it should be met — made with the makers.

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The Problem

An exhibition of objects has to do more than display well-made pieces — it has to cohere into a single statement a visitor reads as intentional. The work needed a through-line strong enough to make a collection of glass pieces feel like one idea in a demanding space, while respecting the collaboration's own authorship and constraints.

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The Approach

I treated the show not as a set of objects to arrange but as a single statement to be read — so the first decision was what the collection is about, before how each piece looks. Working with the makers, I held that through-line as the constraint: a piece earned its place only if it deepened the one idea, not if it was merely well made. The room, not the object, was the unit of judgment.

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The Solution

I worked at the level of concept, design and technical direction — the judgment about what the set is about and how it should be encountered — in collaboration with the makers. The contribution is editorial and curatorial: shaping coherence and intent across the pieces and the space.