Kyoko Arikawa ► Japanese.version
- Objective
- Total space/floral design, event planning and coordination.
- Kyoko Arikawa is a total space/floral designer. She designs store dis
- plays,commercial and residential interiors, ceremonial table settings
- and corporate special events. In her arrangements, she uses both fres
- h and silk flowers of her own design and production and other element
- s to create her work.In many projects, she was often requested to des
- ign an "East meets West" theme by her clients, which has become her s
- pecialty--to pursue western style floral arrangement with an element
- of Japanese aesthetics.Her clients include major Japanese department
- stores, hotels and corporations. She also is a teacher and a lecturer
- at Japanese municipal cultural events and adult extension courses at
- hotels and department stores in Tokyo and Osaka.
- Professional experience:
- Space/floral design, store design, tableware and window display, even
- t planning, and coordination for:Cazzaniga, Italian jeweler /Galleria
- Uchihara (1998-present) Hermes (1986-present ): Hermes's stores and v
- enues in Tokyo, Sapporo, Kyoto, and Nagoya Rihga Royal Hotel(1995-pre
- sent): Hotel culture program, Restaurant Chambord Other major retailo
- rs including Daimaru, Takashimaya, Mitsukoshi, Seibu, Pisa,Pierre Car
- din, Meissen and, Royal Doulton Conventions: International Garden and
- Greenery Exposition, Japan; World Rose Convention
- Selected Individual Exhibitions:
- 2008
- "Harmony: East & West" Galleria Uchihara, Tokyo
- 2005
- "Table and space in moegi color: floral temptation"
- New Takanawa Hotel Japanese Garden, Tokyo
- 2004
- "Cherry blossoms--balmy spring table" , Kyoto
- 2003
- "Table setting and aesthetic in a Kyoto house"
- Silver Pavilion, Kyoto
- 2002
- "Table decoration in the ebony of old Osaka merchant house"
- Konishi residence, culture asset of national importance, Osaka
- 2000
- "A view at the table" Rihga Royal Gallery, Osaka
- 1998
- "Pleasure at the table"
- Aoyama Spiral Garden and Hotel Seiyo Ginza, Tokyo
- 1992
- "Flowers and furniture"
- Corente, Roppongi, Tokyo; sponsored by Obayashi Corporation
- Courses and lectures:
- "Idea for using Japanese fabrics"
- workshop, Galleria Uchihara, Tokyo (present) Floral design and table
- coordination course, Sabrina Club culture program, Rihga Royal Hotel,
- Osaka (1995 -Current)
- Publication and broadcasting:
- "Low-fat gourment" tablesetting, Bunka Publishing Bureau (2004)
- "Happy tables" serial features in KATEI-GAHO (2003, 2004)
- Articles in KATEI-GAHO, MISS, FUJIN-GAHO, Madam, La Seine
- "Pretty Woman" TBS TV, "Kirei Channel" TV Tokyo
- Education: BA. Doshisha Woman's College of Liberal Arts
- Office Arikawa, President
- 1-5-21 #402 Kamikotoen, Nishinomiya-shi
- (Phone/Fax) 0798-54-8845
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