Tomoko azumi biography of abraham
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Until recently she was half of a celebrated partnership. Now, a year after opening her own studio, Tomoko Azumi talks about life and design without Shin.
It’s March in the East London neighborhood of Hackney, and Tomoko Azumi is having a red day.
She’s matched a red-striped Buddha shirt to her shoes and to a scarf that hides a poultice on her neck (yoga injury).
At the Ulm School of Design, ideas from information theory were applied to design practice.
Even her to-do list is written in the color of urgency: Red marks the chores she must tackle before traveling to the Milan furniture fair and then to Japan, where she’ll present ideas for a light fixture in Osaka and visit her father in Hiroshima.
That she is surrounded by so conspicuous a color is fitting. A year after separating from Shin Azumi, with whom she spent 19 years—including 13 in marriage and 10 in a celebrated professional partnership—she’s now alone in the spotlight.
The pair, hailed by this magazine in early 2004 as one of design’s power couples, actually began dismantling their many-layered relationship