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by Miyuki Yajima
Miyuki Yajima is a journalist and creative director based in Milan, widely respected in art and design circles for her distinct aesthetic. A discreet yet magnetic figure within the city’s creative landscape, she moves fluidly between disciplines — from art direction to architecture and exhibition curation — guided by a rare sensibility for light, material, and atmosphere.
Through projects such as S.C. Artroom, her curatorial platform founded in 2020, Yajima explores what she calls “life in continuous evolution,” connecting artists, designers, and technologies through a shared sense of poetry and precision. Her work, often intuitive and deeply sensory, reflects a lifelong fascination with perception and the invisible forces that shape beauty.
“To look, to touch, to smell, to observe, to love, to analyse, to research, to guess, to apply… I like to try to understand things through the five senses, truly feeling them, seeking my connection with cosmic energy.”
For Yajima, elegance is a state of awareness, a dialogue between the seen and the unseen, the material and the spiritual. Her presence, quiet yet luminous, continues to inspire those attuned to the deeper rhythms of design and life itself.
Item
“The Original Rubber. The material helps it fall naturally with its own weight — and so, without concern for height or body shape, it can be worn beautifully by anyone. It’s almost like magic.”
Original below rubber black
Architect
“Sergio Calatroni: His sensitivity to light and to art creates a silent dynamism within space, one of complete elegance. This is the Japanese embassy in Damascus, Syria. The surface of this building is composed of 3–4 different types of craftsmanship. Therefore, depending on the direction and angle of the sun, the building’s surface reveals different nuances through its varying reflections. The subtle decorations on the building are born from this artisanal process that works with sunlight, creating effects drawn from nature by managing sunlight and combining the different surface treatments of the building’s walls. Light and shadow create decoration through reflection.”
Animals
“Dogs and cats: For about forty-six years, I’ve always lived with three or four cats. My relationship with them is almost like the one I have with my human family, there is an exchange of emotion between them and me. I feel that they are my protectors.”
Book
"Future Shock, written by Alvin Toffler, 1970. His way of analyzing society and the world gives me many ideas and leads me to form hypotheses about the world of the future.”
Light
“The only element that has meaning for me is light. The light of the sun, which creates energy, which creates shadows, and which creates reflections. On the walls of my house, many kinds of reflections, lights, and shadows appear every day. The sunlight always adds unexpected decorations to the walls. Architecture, practically speaking, is built from light. Only from light.”
Object
“Every day I burn Kyara di Musashino incense, by the makers Koiyu, to purify my space. I open all the windows, light the incense, and breathe deeply. It is my daily ritual.”
Place
“The central Sahara, regions like Aïr-Ténéré in Niger, or Djanet in Algeria — these are my favorite places. In the height of summer, I go there to test my own limits. I go there to experience what it means to be completely passive. It allows me to feel my connection with the cosmos.”
Artist
“Lucio Fontana: His spatialism, with the cuts, and his ceramics — works of full material presence. His pieces make me feel his cosmic energy: immense and exploding.”
Person
“Nanda Vigo, an architect, designer, and artist (partner of Piero Manzoni, collaborator of Lucio Fontana and Gio Ponti). She was someone who could express everything she felt and thought without any veil, without any fear. Her curiosity was childlike; her fascination with the mystical drove her to research without boundaries. A very courageous and strong person, because she was also a great professional.
