page_title: Tokujin Yoshioka
section_title: Glass projects 2002
hierarchical_section_title: Tokujin Yoshioka / Representative works / Glass projects 2002
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 「Water Block - ガラスのベンチ」／2002
context_page_description: Tokujin Yoshioka is a Japanese designer and artist.
  He is active in the fields of design, architecture and contemporary art, and he is internationally acclaimed for his works dealing with light and nature.
  Many of his works chosen as part of permanent collections in museums worldwide, including Museum of Modern Art, Le Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris, and Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
  He has won many international design awards. In 2007 he was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the 100 Most Respected Japanese in the World.
context_section_description: Has announced starting with glass bench 'Water Block' (2002), 'Transparent Japanese House '(2002), 'Chair that disappears in the rain' (2002), 'Waterfall' (2005-2006), 'KOU-AN – Glass Tea House' (2015), 'Water Block-KATANA' (2017). Glass bench 'Water Block' has been exhibited at Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 2011.
caption: Musée d'Orsay, Paris 2011  Water Block 2002
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