So Koizumi Revives Asphalt as Binding Agent in New Furniture Series
Design Milk | 18.12.2025 21:00
Designer So Koizumi’s new furniture series As excavates asphalt from its contemporary association with road surfaces to recover its original function – an adhesive medium that has connected disparate materials for millennia. This archaeological approach to materiality transforms a substance associated with modern banality into something approaching alchemical sophistication. The material beneath our feet – typically dismissed as utilitarian infrastructure – holds forgotten potential as a sophisticated binding agent.
