SPATIAL GESTURES
INTERVIEW
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara. His work is clean and minimal, as much about what is there as what is not, though with layers of meaning hiding beneath the surface. This sense of wonder, even magic, may have been sparked in his childhood, as he grew up in a flower farming family living at the foot of Mount Fuji, in Yamanashi. Here, he could occasionally dig up pottery and handmade objects more than 3,000 years old, remains from the Jōmon people who roamed the land around that time. “The artefacts I found in my hometown made me seriously think about the endurance and longevity of things at a young age. What lasts and what does not. That has deeply affected the way I work. Jewellery is personal, something we give to ourselves or people close to us. It amasses a story, and should be something to pass on, something that transcends our lifetime.”
Read the full interview in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Alisa Larsen
PHOTOGRAPHY Noam Levinger
THE MECHANICS OF SCENT
Previously presented in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, FRAMA’s exhibition The Mechanics of Scent arrived in Copenhagen, inviting visitors to reconsider one of the most overlooked dimensions of design.
CLOUDLIGHT, PARIS
Bathed in shifting daylight, Amélie du Chalard’s Paris home exists as a deeply personal landscape where art and daily life merge with quiet fluidity.
DESIGN / DIALOGUE 2026 at DEN FRIE
Ark Journal presents the third edition of DESIGN / DIALOGUE, the annual exhibition of curated design and art, this year taking place at Den Frie Udstilling in Copenhagen.
SPATIAL GESTURES
INTERVIEW
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara. His work is clean and minimal, as much about what is there as what is not, though with layers of meaning hiding beneath the surface. This sense of wonder, even magic, may have been sparked in his childhood, as he grew up in a flower farming family living at the foot of Mount Fuji, in Yamanashi. Here, he could occasionally dig up pottery and handmade objects more than 3,000 years old, remains from the Jōmon people who roamed the land around that time. “The artefacts I found in my hometown made me seriously think about the endurance and longevity of things at a young age. What lasts and what does not. That has deeply affected the way I work. Jewellery is personal, something we give to ourselves or people close to us. It amasses a story, and should be something to pass on, something that transcends our lifetime.”
Read the full interview in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Alisa Larsen
PHOTOGRAPHY Noam Levinger