The current exhibition XXIst Century Man - curated by fashion designer and director of 21_21 Issey Miyake - has an equally lofty goal: to understand how, in the context of increased environmental stress, we can (or indeed should) live and work. Though the exhibition is headlined by both new and established works by the likes of Isamu Noguchi, Ron Arad and Tim Hawkinson, two pieces in particular have caught our eye. Miyake asked Tokyo design firm Nendo to make furniture out of the pleated paper that is produced (and normally discarded) when making pleated fabric. While 'Cabbage Chair' reminds one a little of Cousin Itt, it's nevertheless a clever take on sustainability - resins give the construct structure (there are no nails or screws) and the whole can be shipped as a compact roll. Equally winning is an installation by Miyake himself. For 'The Wind', he playfully deconstructs Dyson vacuum cleaners and reassembles the parts to create robots dressed in outfits from Miyake's Dyson A-Poc collection that he showed last autumn in Paris. Read more at http://www.wallpaper.com/art/xxist-century-man-tokyo/2381#Vwv2TwOsYiRfdVV5.99