"General Advisor and Designer"Joerg Gessner

waht is WashiSprit

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WashiSpirit 2009 spring collection
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We continue WashiPaper festival. over 1200 years.

May 3.4.5, every year.

The Goddess of paper "KAWAKAMIGOZEN" is living in this shrine.

"Washi Spirit"

Man is the river. Man is the rain. Man is the wave. Water is the medium. And Washi is the waters spirit. Its first secret is awakening. All life comes from water. So the Washi does. Its second secret is relieving. Born floating in the water, Washi transmits weightlessness. Its third secret is soothing. Moving with the waters flow, the fibers gather naturally in the most harmonic way. Its forth secret is reminding. Slowly build up by the movement, its structure is the memory of the time passed for its making. Its fifth secret is enlightening. Light moves through the fibers until it is released according to the Washi’s structure in never ending ways. We want to share these secrets and provide people the awakening, relieving, soothing, reminding and enlightening presence of washi in their homes.

"Washi Spirit"　和紙精神

「紙は神に通ず」. 人類はその長い歴史を経て、極東の地「日本」で和紙を手に入れることができました。 和紙とは、人間が水を介して作り出す、尊い精神のたまものなのです。 人類の起源と同じように、和紙は水から生まれます。 海藻が大海に揺らめくが如く、和紙繊維は柔らかな水の動きに踊ります。 静かに降り積もる雪のように、その繊維は積み重なり、ともに絡み合いながら一枚の和紙 になってゆきます。 素晴らしい和紙を手にした時、私たちは、その紙が仕上がるまでに経てきた、多くの職人 の尊い作業と熱意に思いを馳せずにはいられません。 このように表情豊かな和紙に光をかざすだけで、私たちは光の無限な広がりを体感するこ とができるのです。 日本で生まれ日本人が育んできた、まさに日本民族の精神的礎（いしずえ）である「和 紙」の楽しさと素晴らしさを、日本国内はもとより、世界中の人びとと共に分かち合うこ とができるように、杉原商店はこれからも、様々な和紙商品を提案し続けてまいります。 杉原吉直

Who is Joerg Gessner

Biography Jorg Gessner 4 rue de la Loge, 69005 Lyon, France ? 15 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris, France. 2014 the story of a white sheet in Paris http://www.washiya.com/b2b/ipec21/sh/sample3/316/index.html 2013/2014 New year window WASHI display. http://www.washiya.com/b2b/ipec21/sh/sample2/283/index.html 20130219-20130407 VICTOR HUGO museum in Paris http://www.washiya.com/b2b/ipec21/sh/sample2/291/index.html 2012 Rembrandt Paper Project : Analyze japanese paper used by Rembrandt for print of his engravings 400 years ago, remake the same washi-quality in Echizen paper-village. April 2012 : Exhibition with ≪ Petit h ≫ of Hermes at Hermes shop, Berlin. 2011 Exhibition with ≪ Petit h ≫ of Hermes at Hermes shop in Paris in December, at the Hermes shop in New-York in November and at the Hermes shop in Tokyo in June 2011. Exhibition of paper-lamps at the artspace ≪ 19 Paul Fort ≫, paris in September/October. Washi-exhibition with Sugihara Washipaper Inc. at Galerie Couleurs Privees, Paris and the townhouse of Lyon, and the Atelier of Jorg Gessner in Lyon in April 2011. 2010 Exhibition ≪ Washi-Walls ≫ with Sugihara Washipaper Inc. at the show-room I.D. Company, Milan, Italy. Exhibition atMaison & Objet, Paris, with Sugihara Washipaper Inc. 2009 -Exhibition ≪ Washi-Spirit ≫ at the house of Eliane Fievet, Paris. Exhibition ≪ Washi-Spirit ≫ at Calligrane, Paris. Exhibition atKloster Johannisberg, Allemagne. Exhibition at Kanazu Forest of Creation, Japan. Exhibition atMaison & Objet, Paris, with Sugihara Washipaper Inc. 2008 Exhibition at Futaba-En, Tokyo. Exhibition in private space in Paris. Exhibition at Ambiente, Frankfurt, Germany with Sugihara Washipaper inc. 2007 Exhibition ≪ Angels ≫ at Calligrane, Paris. Exhibition ≪ Clodoexpo ≫ at the gallery En Marge, Paris. 2006 Government grant ≪ Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs ≫ for paper-research travel to Japan, mai-august 2006 First meeting wit Yoshinao Sugihara, Sugihara Washipaper Inc. Design award for the lace-chandelier ≪ Alicanto ≫ from the federation of lace producers, Paris. 2005 Exhibition of paper-lamps at the Galerie Sentou, Paris. Award from ≪VIA ≫ design organisation in Paris for the bookshelf-system ≪ Roseline ≫. Exhibitions at Paris and Milan. 1999-2004 Textile designer for Citime, Paris, France. 1992-1999 Textile designer for ≪ Melvin Anderson Designs ≫, Milan, Italy and ≪ Jorg Gessner Creations ≫ in Paris, France. 1990-1992 Fashion school ≪ Studio Bercot ≫, Paris. Fashion styling and pattern-making for several fashion-designers, Paris, France. 1985-1989 Apprenticeship of tailoring and textile technics in Frankfurt, Germany. 1973-1985 School in Geisenheim im Rheingau. Born in Rudesheim im Rheingau Germany the 12th June 1967.

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