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Norihiko Terayama

Born in 1977 in Tochigi Prefecture. After graduating from Chuo College of Technology in 1988, he studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. While studying abroad, he experienced the essence of Dutch conceptual design, leading him to train at Studio Richard Hutten, MVRDV (Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice). After returing to Japan, he then established his design studio, Studio Note.

Norihiko's works have a strong impact created by his exceptional imagination and meticulous detail, as well as a definite sense nurtured from his experiences abroad. What he seeks is to “balance" the beauty derived from the laws of nature, with the aesthetic sense of humanity.

While maintaining an appropriate distance from boundaries of uncontrollable nature and accepting it, Norihiko refines the object to make it more elegant and beautiful through the power of design.

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This is a bubble clock that does not "measure" time, but rather "enjoy" the time it takes for the bubbles to form.

Differ from sand, the time ticked by bubbles are ambiguous. The world of bubbles are created slowly and calmly in the delicate glass made by glass blowers of Japan. Some bubbles are large. Some are small. Some are slow, and some are fast.