Panel discussion

29 September 2024

16:00 – 18:00

Introduction to the exhibition Dialogue by journalist Marianna Wahlsten, followed by a discussion with designers Akira Minagawa and Esa Vesmanen, along with design historian Anne Bony, Chizuko Kawarada, partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates, and architecture critic Yann Nussaume. This event provides a view to the processes of design and the connections between Japanese architecture and Nordic Modernism.

The discussion will be in English. It will be followed by a cocktail.

A shuttle will go from Paris, porte d’Auteuil, at 15:00 and returns to Paris around 20:30.

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Image: Esa Vesmanen, sketch with a stool Artek 60

Cover: Esa Vesmanen and Akira Minagawa. Photo Pekka Kiirala