Posts Tagged ‘japan’
In a busy city packed with people, Italian architect Gaetano Pesce has designed a garden that reaches skyward. Crawling up the walls of a building filled with restaurants, shops, and office space, Pesce’s upward-sprawling garden houses 80 varieties of plants, all above street level.
[ via Fresh Home ]
This ring is alive! You’re looking at a real bed of moss set in wood. Yes, that means you have to water it. This charming ring was a collaboration between Cometman, a jewelry designer, and Kokeya, a bonsai designer. You can buy your very own through Ladestore.
[ via Spoon & Tamago ]
For vampire lovers and creative types, you’ll find oodles of inspiration in the land of love hotels and maid cafés, among Japan’s many fantasy themed establishments. When I lived in Japan, one of my favorite places to go was the Christon Café, a lounge filled with decorative relics and church paraphernalia purchased from various churches around the globe. Everything in there was a feast for the eyes! Well, looks like there are a plethora of new places that have popped up around Tokyo recently with equally imaginative themes, like the Vampire Café pictured above. For the scoop on more themed restaurants check out the guardian.co.uk
[ photo via the guardian.co.uk ]
These beautiful and unique wooden toys are hand-crafted by Japanese artist Takeji Nakagawa, who goes by Take-G. He uses the wood construction technique Yosegi-Mokuzougan to make his toys, related to the yosegi technique used with Japanese puzzle boxes. Working with four types of wood—keyaki, teak, walnut, and white ash—Take-G is a master at accentuating the contrasting relationships between the different colors and textures of each wood in order to express artistic patterns.
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This interesting furniture garden installation by Japanese design studio Nendo, is rightfully called Chair Garden for its modern reflection on interior landscapes. In their own words:
“A stool grows a backrest, and becomes a chair. When an armrest sprouts from it, it is an armchair. The stool grows sideways, and becomes a bench, or lengthwise and becomes a lounge chair, or even a bed. If we can see a piece of furniture’s function changes as it grows and matures over time, we may find new clues, even a way to design form naturally.”
[ Via Nendo.jp ]
Roku Nana (六 七, or six seven in Japanese) is a swanky new rooftop bar wedged between two buildings in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. Designed by Yasumichi Morita of Glamorous, there are no signs to help you find your way here, just the little clue six seven, which hints at the ward number in the bar’s address. The only way to find it is to know the actual address…and voilà! you’re sipping drinks on chandelier tables, perched on one tiny wedge of rooftop amongst the Tokyo skyline. Now that is glamorous.
Verde Roppongi 3F
7-16-11 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tel：03-6438-9915
[Via glamorous.co.jp ]
