Michael Dopp
At the heart of Michael Dopp’s collaboration with High Society lies a shared devotion to playful risk-taking, thoughtfulness, and craftsmanship. From his early installations modeled on collaborative social spaces (where dice and domino motifs first emerged), Dopp has harnessed abstraction and improvisation as his signature visual language. Translated into textiles, that language takes two forms: an energetic constellation of dots, dashes, and brush-marks evoking leisure and chance, and a single, bold stroke set against a precise grid to balance spontaneity with geometry.
Beyond prints, Dopp’s ceramic expertise finds fresh life in our architectural tiling. Drawing on his practice of layering contrasting clays and experimenting with marbling and cutting techniques, he developed a bespoke palette and tile series that introduces unexpected texture into High Society’s interiors. Uniform in outline yet each tile bearing its own inventive mark, the series mirrors the tension between rigid structure and fluid gesture that defines Dopp’s work.
This spirit of collaboration extends to ZAKKA BAKKA, the community-driven platform Dopp co-runs with Yosei Shibata and Shoshi Watanabe. There, emerging voices and experimental formats thrive alongside high-level craftsmanship, reaffirming his belief that creativity flourishes at the intersection of disciplines—and energizing the innovative ethos at the core of High Society.
A collage of our collaborations with Dopp.
Michael Dopp’s work with High Society unfolds a seamless narrative of true craftsmanship across every medium he touches—from the fabrics that bear his bold, abstract motifs to the ceramics, tiles, and bespoke furnishings that carry his improvisational line into three-dimensional space—each piece resonating with the same dynamic tension between structure and spontaneity that defines his practice, so that every garment, surface, and object becomes part of a larger story of collaboration, invention, and the joyful alchemy of art meeting function.
