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Matter and Shape, ‘Brutalist Japan’, Make Play

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11 March 2025

Episode 700

31 minutes


Photo: Natalie Mohadjer

Highlights from the second edition of Parisian design salon Matter and Shape. Then: we learn about brutalism in Japan. Plus: we visit the Young V&A in London to meet designer Charlie Boyden. 

11 March 2025

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Chapter 1

11 minutes


Photo: Natalie Mohadjer

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Chapter 1

Matter and Shape

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The second edition of the annual design salon at Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries brings together fashion and design industries.

11 minutes

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Matter and Shape

Chapter 2

11 minutes


Photo: Paul Tulett

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Chapter 2

‘Brutalist Japan’

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Writer Tomás Pinheiro meets Okinawa-based architectural photographer Paul Tulett to discuss the divisive building style.

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Chapter 3

7 minutes


Photo: Charlie Boyden

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Chapter 3

‘Make Play’

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We meet designer Charlie Boyden at the Young V&A in east London, where he will investigate, prototype, research and make objects of play over the coming weeks as part of a new project.

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