Great Stair Hall
Main Building
Join us for this evening event, celebrating Naoto Fukasawa, winner of the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award.
Marking his first major solo presentation at a U.S. museum, Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves will build on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s existing strengths in modern and contemporary Japanese design, with a number of objects from our own collection displayed for the first time. Providing a much-needed opportunity to explore the significance of Fukasawa’s design ethos—from shaping electronics for Samsung’s global market to collaborating with artisan firms on small-batch fine furniture production—this exhibition will demonstrate Fukasawa’s advocacy for a design philosophy of longevity, accessibility, and subtle humor over novelty, ephemerality, or blatant commercialism.
Join us to meet Naoto and see the exhibition before it opens to the public.
Online sales have closed. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door via credit card only.
Sponsors
The 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award is sponsored by Amuneal, Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust, B&B Italia, Eileen Tognini Design, Haworth, Marguerite Rodgers Interior Design, MillerKnoll, Millésimé, Minima, and Rago/Wright.
Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves, the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award exhibition, is made possible by The Lisa S. Roberts and David W. Seltzer Endowment Fund in Support of the Collab Design Excellence Award Exhibition. Additional support provided by Collab.
All exhibitions at the PMA are underwritten by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by Andrea Baldeck, M.D.; Julia and David Fleischner; Amy A. Fox and Daniel H. Wheeler; Robert Hayes; Mark W. Strong and Dana Strong.