Designer Hanako Maeda often looks to the ephemeral, waxing about her memories and nostalgia, but resort sees her distill things down, zeroing in on silhouette, shape and color, remixed through the lens of art history. Maeda looked to Isamu Noguchi’s Water Stone, which is part of The Met’s collection of Asian Art.
“He doesn’t use a lot of color and it’s all about the natural materials you find in Japan and light…