American artist Theaster Gates has transformed a dedicated Prada Home retail space in Milan into an earthen sanctuary for his exhibition Chawan Cabinet, dedicated to Japanese pottery . Opened for Milan design week , the exhibition brings together hundreds of vessels and objects sculpted by Gates along with a selection he has curated from friends and mentors in Japan, where he spent a formative year studying pottery in the 1990s. Gates made or selected everything from the floor to the wall treatment in the space, adding personal touches such as his own antique cabinet and a record player to unite the textures of analogue sound and hand-formed clay. The Chawan Cabinet exhibition focuses on Japanese pottery One of the USA's pre-eminent contemporary artists, Gates is known for his socially engaged and interdisciplinary works that centre the African-American experience.…