A Floor Lamp Inside a Pizza Box by Kazuhiro Yamanaka.Japanese designer Kazuhiro Yamanaka has designed Pizza Box Lamp, a polyester floor lamp that nods to Ingo Maurer’s 1980 Lampampe. Made out of 100% recycled polyester fibre, each layer is crinkled to create a unique pattern and add...
Futurism and Footwear: Ura Tokyo by Insideout.An innate sense of tranquillity comes to the fore at Ura Tokyo. A veil of fluorescent lighting, pierced by a mirrored obelisk-like mass breaks the boundary between inside and out. Insideout’s key consideration was playing with extreme...
Yuma Kano Transforms Forrest Debris into a Sustainable New Material.Tokyo-based designer Yuma Kano has developed ForestBank, a unique and innovative material that looks to find new value in our forests. Yuma repurposes twigs, leaves, and branches, bound by a water-based acrylic resin, transforming them...
Less, Light, Local: ITA NORI Seaweed Installation by We+.Japanese design studio We+ has completed a research project that offers new value to discarded and non-edible nori seaweed, highlights two overlooked qualities in the food source as a material—its lightness and...
Kyoto Wand Café by Coil Kazuteru Matsumura Architects.Take a pause on your Kyoto journey at Kazuteru Matsumura Architects’ Kyoto Wand Café, set within a renovated townhouse. The unravelling of multiple building layers paved the way for an interior that embraces traditional structure of...
Opus Arisugawa Terrace & Residence in Tokyo by OEO Studio.OEO Studio has completed a renovation of a luxury apartment at the Opus Arisugawa Terrace & Residence in central Tokyo, Japan. The interiors reflect a cross-pollination of Japanese and Scandinavian design, drawing on inspiration from both...
The Upper in Tokyo by Luchetti Krelle.Luchetti Krelle channels a little bit of everything in The Upper, a double-billed restaurant destination held within the newly completed Marunouchi Terrace Tower of Tokyo’s downtown business district. Saturated colours mingle with...
80 Years of Eames Design Legacy Celebrated in a Tokyo Exhibition.To celebrate 80 years of prolific, multifaceted legacy of one of the most enduring duos of 20th Century design, the Eames Office presents an exhibition at Isetan’s gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition explores how the optimistic philosophies...
Maruhiro Office “Ouchi” by DDAA for Legacy Ceramics Brand Hasami.Tokyo-based studio DDAA has designed a new kind of workplace interior for legacy ceramics brand Hasami. With minimal intervention the designers boldly changed the impression of the existing heritage house while creating a space that is not...
