Hiroshi Sugimoto Signed Photograph, U.A. Walker Theatre, New York, 1978

For over 40 years, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948) has been creating fascinating and mysterious artworks, which have artistically responded to and challenged our collective perception of time and history. He studied at Saint Paul's University in Tokyo and later at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where he was strongly influenced by the American art movements of Minimalism and Concept Art. He works exclusively in the medium of black-and-white photography and according to the concept of the series, consistently pursuing the idea of individual series over a longer period of time.

The concept of design underpins every element of professional activity that constitutes the ASH organization. Our interior design practice includes private residential clients, hotels, large-scale residential buildings and our own development portfolio. We subscribe to a design theory that eschews premeditation or calculation in favor of an organic approach that is influenced equally by architecture, history, art, light and color. We are fanatics of detail, material and source. We favor the combination of the modern and the ancient, and the harmony that can result from a deft balance of periods along the entire spectrum of design history.