Articles Tagged with ''Japan''

A tidy package with a porous wrapping, N House is a set of three nesting boxes that span the scales of city and domicile.

In 1993, when the hip-hop-inspired hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts of A Bathing Ape (aka BAPE) first began appearing on the back streets of Tokyo’s edgy Urahara neighborhood, their designer never dreamed his clothes would be sold next door to The Gap, Uniqlo, and other mass-market retailers.

Japan is the first country other than the United States to claim a MoMA Design Store.

Jin’s Global Standard 1,830-square-foot eyeglass shop is situated within a suburban shopping center in Kobe.

“Bean bag chairs are impossible in Japanese school libraries,” says architect Kenichi Nakamura.

Kengo Kuma wraps a hot springs hotel, Japan's Ginzan Onsen Fujiya, in screens as exquisitely delicate as a cricket cage.