I SEE ALL Fashion Boutique in Osaka by Yusuke Seki.Found on the second floor of a ninety-eight-year-old building in Osaka is I SEE ALL. The Japanese Boutique’s interior and furniture designed by Yusuke Seki is a tongue-in-cheek “rebellion against the sleek minimalism often found in...
Stairway House in Tokyo by Nendo.From the outside, nendo’s Stairway House in Tokyo sits like a clean white spaceship in the quiet residential area it landed in. The home’s regular, rectangular grid is intercepted with a monumental angled concrete staircase, the mere...
Tokyo Office Tower by nendo Veiled With a Timber Grid.Rather than allow another closed-off office building to populate the street, nendo created a space connected to the exterior environment with this Tokyo office building. Balconies have been placed sporadically on six floors, each of which...
Voice of Coffee in Kobe, Japan by Yusuke Seki.This hole-in-the-wall style espresso bar and mini roastery might feel at home down a Surry Hills alleyway, or tucked into an empty loading dock in the Melbourne CBD. It is, however, located in Kobe – the Japanese city on Osaka Bay, best...
Gigi-Verde Flower Atelier in Kobe, Japan by Sides Core.Designed by Sides Core, Gigi Verde is an atelier that creates custom flower arrangements for event spaces, in addition to serving as a retail flower...
Stories On Design // Modern Arches.Today’s Story is dedicated to one of architecture’s most fundamental elements, the one present in its very nomenclature: The Arch. Perhaps you would have noticed the resurgence of Arches in many modern projects, from architecture...
nendo’s Installation with 2,000 Pieces of “Ivy of Mirrors” for an Ikebana School in Japan.nendo has designed a spectacular kaleidoscopic exhibition for a Sogetsu school of Ikebana in Japan, commemorating it's 90th...
Nendo’s Invisible Outlines at Jil Sander Showroom in Milan.I think we can all agree Nendo's fonder Oki Sato is a freak of nature. We've talked about the work of this Japanese practice a number of times. And no matter how often I experience the studio's work first hand, I am never left feeling...
Stories On Design // Swimming Pools.Swimming Pools are like pom-poms. Everybody loves them. Ok, that may not be true (about pom-poms at least - that's probably just me), although you have to admit that Swimmings Pools feel like opening a can of instant happiness. Yay! For...
