Welcome
Japanese Style : Sustaining Design is a season of exhibitions that gives visitors to Ruthin Craft Centre the opportunity to experience some of the world’s most interesting work from Japan. Japanese Style : Sustaining Design shows how artists and design communities can make a valuable contribution to sustainable development by focusing on the relationship between the traditional and the innovative. It demonstrates how the strength of the human spirit can play a key role in sustainable development, and the important part that effective design can play in sustaining the environment. 

Exhibitions

Gallery 1: Reiko Sudo
Gallery 2: Kagure / Takahiro Kondo / Shinsuke Iwami
Gallery 3: The Hale Collection of Tohoku Ceramics

Architecture

Studio 2: Kazuya Morita
Studio 3: Tono Mirai
Studio 5: Studio Archi Farm
Residency Studio: Nurturing the Spirit
Osamu Ishiyama Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo; Smout Allen, Bartlett School of Architecture; the Design Unit of the Welsh School of Architecture

Residencies

Retail Gallery / Pop-Up Shop

Japanese Makers resident in the UK – Ceramics, Textiles, Contemporary Craft and Design. Handmade Washi Paper from Mino, Gifu Province features in both the exhibitions and shop.