It was during the 2020 Spring lockdown that Benjamin Graindroge resumed his project initiated at the villa Kujoyama a few years earlier.
The tranquility of this French artistic establishment based in Mount Higashi in Kyoto provides all the ingredients to encourage creation with a link to Japan.
From the first discovery of the Kujoyama bookcase, we find immediately this reassuring feeling of a controlled calm thanks to the severity of subtly dosed proportions between the different elements that compose it.