Warehouse TERRADA’s PIGMENT Receives “German Design Award 2018”

PIGMENT is a comprehensive facility for creativity that includes aspects of a laboratory, workshop, museum
and retail store, with a lineup of high-quality, rare art materials including pigments in 4,500 hues, glues, and
brushes for calligraphy and painting.
Renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed the interior of the facility, and the space, featuring a
striking ceiling outlined by curving bamboo blinds and pigment shelves that cover an entire wall with gradations
of color was highly acclaimed, leading to the award.
Bolstered by this international acclaim, PIGMENT will continue to play the role of a hub for transmitting cultural
value by handing down traditions in art materials and painting techniques.

https://pigment.tokyo
PIGMENT is an art materials research lab connecting artistic expression both with tradition and the future, and
develops the ingredients for that expression – colorants and adhesive vehicles for mixing paints, calligraphy
brushes and paintbrushes – in a unique creativity center fusing an art academy and a museum with an art
materials store. With pigments in 4500 hues, 200 varieties of aged ink sticks, 50 different vehicles for paint
blending, it offers materials of rare and surpassing quality created with techniques from all times and places.
Also, PIGMENT is taking unique approaches to research, educate and popularize “art materials,” their “usage,”
and furthermore “expression” produced by this harmony.