NOMURA Ryutaro Matsuura selected as the only Japanese among 40 designers active in Asia

Ryutaro Matsuura of our Commercial Environment Business Division has been selected as "Asia's most active designer under the age of 40" at the "40 UNDER 40" awards hosted by the Hong Kong architecture and concept design magazine "Perspective."

 

"40 UNDER 40" is an award that started in 2007. Every year, designers under the age of 40 who are notable in the fields of interior, architecture, products, art, etc. We have selected 40 people from the viewpoint of evaluation.

 

This year, the 9th Awards Ceremony was held on April 28th at the Pacific Coffee Emporium in Hong Kong, and about 150 people, including designers and media representatives, attended from Hong Kong and other Asian countries. Matsuura was selected in the interior category and is the only Japanese among the 40 winners this year.

 

Matsuura has worked on a wide range of international brand stores, hotels, and showrooms, and in recent years has expanded his field of activity to Asia, concept design overseas stores for domestic brands such as the first overseas stores of Henri Charpentier (Singapore) and White Essence (Taiwan), not only in Japan. In 2012, he was selected as the Grand Prize winner of the JCD Kansai Best Designers Award, which is for designers under the age of 40, by the Japan Commercial environmental design concept design (JCD), and the following year in 2013, he won the Name Award (Silver Award) at the China International Spatial Environment Art Design Awards "NEST AWARD". He was the first Japanese to win this award. His work has been highly praised both in Japan and overseas, and he has been featured in many media outlets, and he is also working to revitalize the display industry by giving lectures and lecturing at seminars and universities. He is expected to become even more active as a designer who will lead the next generation of commercial environment concept design.

 

Ryutaro Matsuura
Born in 1975
February 2001: Completed Master's course in Architecture at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kansai University
March 2001: Joined NOMURA Ltd.
Currently, Creative Director of the Creative Department of the Commercial Environment Business Division

 

Major works
2014 Henri Charpentier Dempsey Hill (Singapore)
2013 KLOS Koizumi Lighting Operation Studio
2013 white essence Taiwan Dunnan store
2012 RIHGA Royal Grand Okinawa DINING & BAR AIJU
2011 Hankyu Men's Tokyo (Overall supervision and environmental design)
2009 Niga Kyoto Main Store

 

【Related Sites】
≪Perspective Magazine≫
http://www.perspectiveglobal.com/

≪40 UNDER 40≫
http://www.perspectiveglobal.com/awards/40-under-40/