In the future's favour During our meeting, Issey Miyake speaks of his friend and master Isamu Noguchi. He maintains that the Akari collection by Noguchi cannot be compared to In-Ei, because the two are utterly different, both in their form and material and in their content. On the one hand, archaic forms are inspired by those of nature seen with the naked eye; on the other, forms are derived from the use of algorithmic design, hence from a reasoning about nature's innermost geometric but cellular code. These are two types of "organic", but different design. To continue this comparison, we have on one side Noguchi with traditional paper in need of a structure, and on the other Miyake with an ultra-innovative, self-supporting material. Certainly, both are imbued with the same avantgarde spirit. But In-Ei is ahead, an offspring of our time. Miyake and Artemide together have scored a point in favour of the future.