41 GROHE Magazine Antoni Gaudí born 1852 is a Catalan architect whose distinctive works such as the Sagrada Familia and Park Güell are mostly found in Barcelona Three Japanese artisans reinterpret Gaudí s striking and creative architecture for a new exhibition at INAX MUSEUMS in Tokoname What does a repurposed ceramics factory in Japan have to do with one of Europe s best known modernist architects of the 1920s A re cent exhibition at Tokoname s INAX ceramics museum formerly a factory for ceramic pipes and tiles crossed oceans and decades to draw a connection between contemporary Japanese craftsmanship and the work of the great Span ish architect Antoni Gaudí The museum is ded icated to the Japanese tradition of monotsukuri making things and is supported by GROHE s parent company LIXIL as part of their Living Culture program which aims to preserve his tory and promote innovation In that spirit LIXIL flew three artisans Takuto Hiki Naoki Kusumi and Amane Shiraishi to Barcelona to visit the Sagrada Familia Casa Milà and other renowned works by the Catalan architect Inspired by Gaudí s unique blend of traditional craft natural shapes and religious reverence the trio returned to Tokoname and worked live on an installation that is a tribute to both the ideas of the past and the style of the present Gaudí was fond of catenary arches think of a chain hanging from both ends then imagine that shape upside down his loft at Casa Batlló famously features 60 of them lined up like a tunnel of whalebones For the INAX exhibit architect Takuto Hiki designed a passageway of catenary vaults inspired by the unfinished Church of Colònia Güell Even at quarter of the scale the domes have a tall stately geometry I wanted to retain the dignified sacred at mosphere that is characteristic of churches says Hiki Master plasterer Naoki Kusumi then covered the frames some in smooth delicate clay proving his excellent technique others in rough organic mud with the texture of African termite mounds to set the stage for decorative The trio of artisans worked live on the installation inspired by Gaudí s work

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