Tokyo-based Tailored Design Lab. have designed Kawagoe house, a wood frame house. An active family, who loves gardening and playing outdoors, encountered a plot of land in a rural landscape located 20 minutes away from the city-center by car.
Ishiba House is a new house designed by Japanese studio Alts Design. Description by Alts Design: The hope of this client is to live in a new house just like a renovated warehouse. The type of houses is diversified into various kinds, and such a house is prevalent on the ground of financial terms. However,
Kochi Architect’s Studio renovated this single-family house, originally used as a typical two-story apartment – house in Japan. Description by Kochi Architect’s Studio: This is a renovation project of single-family house, originally used as a typical two-story apartment – house with eight small rental units in the suburban area of Tokyo, Japan. More than half
Tokyo -based Mamm Design has designed the interior of this apartment in order to give freshness and light. Japanese interior design has transformed the apartment into a very special and calm home. Description by Mamm Design: This is a renovation project of an apartment unit in a 30-years-old building. It’s for a family of 3 ladies, a
Undulae by Taeg Nishimoto is a series of lamps made of cornstarch-based bioplastic tubes. Using the characteristics of shrinking and undulating when the bioplastic is in the drying process, the formal manipulation is left for each tube to form itself. There are two types of the application of this bioplastic tubes as a lighting fixture.
This Japanese courtyard residence was completed in 2015 by FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects. The house is located in Shiga, Japan. The architect’s description: The site is located in a relaxed area where fields and farms are stretching. The west side of the site is visually connected to the distant hill, making the site look like the
House in Kai is a project completed in 2014 by Tokyo-based studio Mamm Design. The architect’s description: The only strong request from client was that all rooms should be oriented to the south. Kai-city, where they have harsh winter, is in Kofu basin, which is located in central part of Japan. We realized that people who lives in
Inspired by a bowl of fruits, designer Hiroomi Tahara has designed a very playful furniture collection named The Fruit Bowl, for the manufacturer Yamakawa Rattan. The Fruit Bowl collection is composed of a sofa, a coffee table and a few additional ottomans made of rattan which is the most ecological material, this collection can be
These cute chairs were designed by the Japanese designer Takeshi Sawada for Kamina & C. Initially, Bambi chair was made and it was beloved from the first moment, after which the ones inspired by the horns of the ram and of the cow followed. Besides fur and horns, some chairs have shaped hooves feet. Being
Being designed by Masahiro Minami and specially created for children, these innovative toys and playground equipments are made from special reinforced corrugated fibreboard called HIPLE-ACE. The playground equipments can be used in parks due to their resistance to harsh temperature and humidity. The toys and pieces of furniture can be easily assembled by parents and
Tuplet by Taeg Nishimoto is a floor lamp that uses a mesh fabric called Buckram. Buckram is impregnated with resin and is usually used to make the inner structure of hats. It is molded into shape by wetting and when it’s dry, it retains a self-supporting strength while remaining the translucent quality of mesh. The
Yu Watanabe is an 80 years retired design professor that has returned to work to create the Hiromatsu, a series of wooden furniture for children. Hiromatsu company is located in Fukuoka Prefecture in Okinawa City, Japan, and is a major producer of environmentally friendly furniture for children, engaged in sustainable design, with respect for nature
