Officially Kazumi Yoshida is Executive Vice-President of Design at the decorative fabric company, Clarence House but that seems a weighty title for someone who seemed to us very easy-going, instinctively creative and humorous, even playful. Some of his designs are classics—even if you don’t know who he is you will have seen his Papier Japonais or La Palmas textiles in someone’s house somewhere. He also spends a good portion of his time making art, both sculpture and works on paper and he is currently shopping a delightful picture book manuscript as well as designing collections for Clarence House and Hermès. His new book, Clarence House: The Art of Textile , is both a visual presentation of this textile house’s fabric collections and an illumination of Yoshida’s creative design process.
