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Supreme Organization With Tansu

We had never heard of Tansu until yesterday but we're all ears now. Apparently, it's the Japanese term used to describe these amazing dressers. Intricate and hand-crafted (if you can find them) are...

House Tour: Alastair & Kayoko's "Mansion" Apartment
Tokyo

Name: Alastair Townsend and Kayoko Ohtsuki of BAKOKO Design Development Location: Matsudo, Japan Size: 400 sq. ft. Years lived in: 6 months >> Enter Slideshow When architects Alastair Townsend ...

Sharp Cone House by Suppose Design Office

Name: Sharp Cone House by Suppose Design Office Location: Higashihiroshima, Japan Size: 115.51m2 Upon first glance, the monolithic ebony pyramid shaped residence nicknamed the “sharp cone” by a...

Kudamemo Fruit Sticky Notes by D-Bros.

Because sometimes you don't really need an excuse to bring "cute" into our lives, Japanese company D-Bros. offers sticky notes arranged like sliced fruit. These kawaii note pads even come packaged i...

Three Gardrobes: The Water Closet Inside Closets

The Three Gardrobes by Tamizo Architects Group is an interesting idea: instead of cramming the utilities of the typical bathroom into a small space, the Three Gardrobes compartmentalizes the bath, t...

House Call: Atago House
Hiroshima

Name: Atago House; Small House Design Lab Location: Hiroshima, Japan Size: 1195 sq. ft. Even people not all too fond of modern minimalism should find something to like in this modest sized home fro...

Cut, Paste, Play: USB Powered Paper Model Speakers

There's always something pleasantly rewarding about carefully cutting something out, folding and slotting tab "A" into tab "B" and converting a 2 dimensional piece of paper into a 3 dimensional object...

House Call: Long Tall House
Tokyo

Name: Long Tall House/Space Space Location: Tokyo, Japan Type: 2 bedroom, 3 story residence Size: 102.69 meters squared Designed by Japanese architect firm, Space Space, the Long Tall House is exact...

Hot or Not? Redesigned Ideaco Kamui Magazine Rack

Ideaco Kamui Magazine Rack, an update of the previous 2004 Good Design Award in Tokyo version. What do you think of the subtle, but notable, redesign? ...

Need an Idée? Inspirations from Japan's Idée Catalogue

A friend of ours just moved to Japan and has been on the hunt for stylish--yet small--furniture. His apartment is a mere 320 sq ft, and he's been playing around the idea of creating what he calls, "Sc...

Two New Designs Join Muji Prefab Home Line

click for more pics One of the retailers we're always hoping that makes their way to Los Angeles is that fine purveyor a minimalist Japanese home goods, Muji. Their organic and simple designs are amon...

Paco: Living Inside the Box

click for more picsThose of you who detest minimalist aesthetics (and experimental architecture) might want to turn away their eyes and skip this post, because the creation of Jo Nagasaka & Sschemata ...

A Home on Wheels: The Toyota Roadtrip Mobile

If there's something we love to do every chance we get, it is to take a roadtrip. Anywhere. The allure of the road, with new sights and experiences, is as good as any faraway getaway for those of us w...

House Call: Shell Villa
Nagano

Name: Pasinetti House; Kotaro Ide of ARTechnic architects Location: Nagano, Japan In similar spirit to the Nautilus Shell House (though noticeably more refined), Artechnic's Shell residence in Nagan...

ANYTHING Stationery Line is Anything But Boring

We lurve this minimal modern line of stationery from ANYTHING Design, a collaboration between UK designer Michael Sodeau and Japanese company Suikosha. The forms remind us a lot of Muji's industrial d...

Look: DRAWERS by Makoto Yamaguchi

Tokyo designer Makoto Yamaguchi's DRAWERS has the appearance of a typical dresser drawer that has lost it's outer framing. What remains is a stack of boxes that reveal a series of drawers that open up...

House Call: The N House
Oyta, Japan

Name: The N House; Sou Fujimoto Architects Location: Oyta, Japan >>>View Slideshow Trend.Land posted a few photos of the N House designed by Japanese architecture firm, Sou Fujimoto Architects, and w...

Good Questions: What Should I Do With My Studio Apt?
Los Angeles

AT reader ATL has a really good question for all of you small space dwellers! Read on: I am a former Valley apartment dweller who has since moved to a small studio in Japan. I took over an apartmen...

"Next Generation House": The Japanese Small Space Getaway
Kumakura

It's been a noticeably pleasant summer this year, so we've taken advantage of weekends by escaping up to the San Gabriel Mountains and the trails of the Angeles Forest every chance we get, where we've...

Onigiri House
Japan

"Onigiri" for those who may not be acquainted with the Japanese snack staple is rice formed into triangle or oval shapes, wrapped together with nori (seaweed). It's one of our favourite snacks, so we ...

Naoko Kanehira's Cushion Stool and Cushion Sofa

There's comfy and then there's super comfy, like Naoko Kanehira's designs shown at the New Designers show in London. These pillow-centric seating options would make a good match for the demographic wh...

AT Asia: Minimalist Modern Japan

Wow, I thought my minimalist modern tendencies had faded away since my days in college studying to become an architect (perhaps architects prefer minimalist designs so as to eliminate drafting product...

Look! Fields of Pink Flowers!

Pretty in Pink! Look at these gorgeous fields of "moss phlox" blooming at the Hitsujiyama Park in Chichibu, Japan......

Sori Yanagi Home Collection

Sori Yanagi might not be a name you may recognize right off the bat, but you'll probably be acquainted with his iconic 1954 bentwood masterpiece, the butterfly stool. Or perhaps you may recognize his ...

Wooden Tissue Box by Yamato Japan

Although there are a ton of design patterns, we dare say that the average tissue box is pretty... ugly. There are tissue box covers, but we've never found one that seemed right. We also never really w...

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