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— Exhibition Information —
Location: Executive Museum Lounge Atrium (Park Hotel Tokyo, 25F)
Admission: Free
Bonsai Artist: Shin Suzuki WITHERS Creative Designer
Bonsai and nurtured for decades, sometimes centuries, and passed down through generations. When their life ends, must their stories vanish too?
WITHER was born to honor that legacy by transforming withered bonsai into art. Using dried trunks and preserved botanicals, each piece blends bonsai’s quiet dignity with refined modern design.
Reinterpreting the Japanese tradition of bonsai as contemporary art, WITHERS TAIZAN BONSAI is created using bonsai that would otherwise be discarded after withering.
Each work is reconstructed with a modern sensibility, preserving both the long years etched into the trunk and the sculptural beauty shaped by time itself.
No artificial materials are used. All branches, leaves, and moss are made exclusively from real plant materials. Through a unique preserved technique, these artworks require no watering or daily maintenance and can be enjoyed indoors for many years to come.
In recent years, bonsai has gained high recognition overseas and has come to be seen as a symbol of Japanese culture.
At the same time, traditional bonsai often presents significant challenges for everyday use, including the difficulty of maintenance, the need for outdoor care, and restrictions related to export and quarantine.
By requiring no watering or maintenance, using a soil-free structure, and allowing pieces to be taken abroad, WITHERS TAIZAN BONSAI realizes a new form of bonsai that is approachable and easy to enjoy for guests visiting from around the world.
The Executive Museum Lounge Atrium offers sweeping views of Tokyo from the upper floors. Within this serene and refined space, reborn bonsai art quietly stands, adding a subtle yet memorable artistic experience to your time in the city.
From Park Hotel Tokyo’s unique perspective—where art itself becomes a form of hospitality— this exhibition invites you to experience Japanese culture × sustainability × contemporary art as part of an extraordinary, immersive setting.
Each reborn bonsai art piece is entirely one of a kind— no two are ever the same. As you spend a moment in the lounge,we invite you to look beyond the form itself and reflect on the story and time embodied within each work.
From an early age, Shin Suzuki developed a deep interest in nature and plants.
At university, he studied landscape design, laying the foundation for his lifelong engagement with natural form and space.
After graduating, he traveled through 33 countries, seeking the power and beauty of nature.
During these journeys, he encountered the way Japanese bonsai deeply captivated people around the world, leading him to study the essential beauty and spirit embedded within bonsai culture.
Upon returning to Japan, Shin launched an apparel brand from the ground up as a means of embodying his own aesthetic.
Through this work, he explored practical expressions of the beauty of bonsai, applying bonsai-inspired motifs and sensibilities to graphic design and fashion.
One day, while visiting a bonsai garden, he was struck by the sight of valuable bonsai—trees shaped over decades—being discarded after withering.
This experience became the catalyst for a new endeavor.
In 2023, under the concept “Beautiful, even in withering,”
he founded the reborn bonsai art project WITHERS.
Drawing from years of sincere engagement with natural forms,
combined with the refined, contemporary design sensibility cultivated through his work in apparel,
Shin believes it is precisely at the intersection of these two perspectives
that the true meaning of reborn bonsai art emerges.
