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Tokujin Yoshioka creates a lasting impression
Japanese designer installs Water Block bench in front of Impressionist masterpieces at the Musée d'Orsay
Tokujin Yoshioka has installed a set of his Water Block benches in the newly renovated Impressionist gallery at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The glass block sculptures mimic the effect of water.
![Tokujin Yoshioka, Water Block (2011), Musée d'Orsay, Paris](http://resource/ins-yoshioka-6.jpg)
Yoshioka is one of Japan's most important designers, creating his experimental designs for over two decades and pursuing a design partnership with Issey Miyake, producing the fashion designer's boutique spaces and an exhibition, Issey Miyake Making Things at the Cartier Foundation, Paris in 1998.
![Tokujin Yoshioka, Water Block (2011), Musée d'Orsay, Paris](http://resource/ins-yoshioka-4.jpg)
Water Block is part of an ongoing theme for Yoshioka - he's previously created a chair and a 4.5 metre long table from his own practice housed in a 150 year-old former rice warehouse in Tokyo.
![Tokujin Yoshioka, Water Block (2011), Musée d'Orsay, Paris](http://resource/ins-yoshioka-5.jpg)
Offering a suitable contrast between classical works and Yoshioka's modern design, Water Block offers visitors a moment to sit and ponder some of the museum's great impressionist works by Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne and Renoir - further proof of art's ability to rejuvenate flagging minds, and bodies.