Origata Design Institute Showcase

Origata is the ancient art of Japanese gift-wrapping in paper. The Origata Design Institute, which brings a contemporary feel to this formal art of folding, seeks to raise awareness of folding and make it a part of everyday life. In this exhibition, the Institute pushed the boundaries of traditional and modern, past and future, Eastern and Western, person and object based on data collected since it was first established in 2001, as well as Ise Sadatake’s classic Explanatory Illustrations of Folding and Tying . This exhibition showcased the new era of folding that is now emerging from the Origata Design Institute.