Where to Find Perfect Gifts for Painters
4200 Different Pigments Plus Brushes Line the Shelves
Read how this store in Japan is redefining what it means to be an art supply store:
Bamboo and open space combine in this gorgeous art supply store in Tokyo.
More than 4000 different pigments are stored in glass vials that line the walls.
It is all enough to make any artist drool with delight! Certainly if you are look for gifts for your favorite painter, you will be able to find it here!
Everything about this store, designed by architect Kengo Kuma, is exquisite. But the shop is more than just a place to sell art supplies. It is part of a mission for the parent company, company Warehouse TERRADA who wants to encourage artists to follow in the footsteps of their artistic ancestors.
In recent years fewer artists have turned to more traditional methods of art making, diminishing the number of successors to these older forms. Pigment aims to provide hard-to-find tools for the preservation of older paintings while also inspiring the latest generation of artists to incorporate these older materials into newer works. In addition to selling brushes, pigments, special glues, and papers (some used in Japanese painting since the Meiji period), the store will also provide workshops by both art professors and manufacturers of the supplies housed in-store.
Every brush is beautiful and displayed in an artistic fashion enticing artists to try new sizes and shapes.
Whether you are looking for new or traditional papers, bases to carry your pigments, brushes, or just about anything else that you can’t find anywhere else, you can probably find it here. Tokyo a little too far for you to go for that perfect gift? No problem, you can order online.
Thanks for the original story found on Colossal.
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