Isabelle YAMAMOTO

Isabelle Yamamoto’s artistic journey, from New York, Paris to Brussels, is shaped by life experiences and enriched by the encounter and influence of her Japanese husband, shaping an intimate bond with the imperfect beauty embodied by the Japanese Wabi-Sabi philosophy. There she found her essence, an ode to interior design rooted in authenticity and sustainability.

The choice of material becomes crucial to its expression. It’s through hemp, with its natural, living fibers, that Isabelle brings her creations to life. Her travels have led her to find old hemp in Hungary, Slovenia, Ukraine, France and Japan. Each piece of hemp is unique, each fiber telling an ancient story, a lived experience. Variations in colors and textures, witness to the passage of time, are the raw gems she shapes into her creations.

The dyeing process becomes a dance with nature. Isabelle, in collaboration with French artisans specialized in dyeing, explores muted, timeless colors. Inspired by Japanese philosophy, earthy hues such as dark honey, dark hazelnut, bronze or Yakisugi imbue her creations with an ethereal serenity. Each dye bath is a discovery, an intimate dialogue between raw material and color.

Isabelle Yamamoto creates unique pieces that bear the elegant scars of time and wear. She sublimates flaws, visible seams, rough edges and life’s accidents. For her, every imperfection becomes an aesthetic imprint, an ode to the fragility of human life, particularly relevant in today’s questioning world. Each creation is therefore an autonomous work of art, a fragment of hemp’s history, revealing the beauty in its raw fibers. They are not simply decorative objects, they invite silent contemplation of nature, history and life.

In Isabelle’s workshop, each creation is a poem woven with passion and devotion, a tribute to the eternal, to beauty in imperfection, and to the serene wisdom of Wabi-Sabi.