#Japanese design

[toutpetitlaplanete]

Hirō Isono - Untitled, n.d.

[chasedbybuildings]

Seiko h-timetron (1999)

[miamaimania]

Sit in serenity: Masanori Umeda's 'Lily Chair' (circa 1990) blooms with elegance 🌼

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Japanese paper from the Wazome Katazome Moriki Paper Company

RCW Museum Collections

[11oh1]

ig@_miki_kim

[heaveninawildflower]

Circular decorative forms taken from 'Studies in the Decorative Art of Japan' by Francis Taylor Piggott.

Published 1910 by B.T. Batsford.

Getty Research Institute.

archive.org

[evan-collins90]

Hotel Nikko - Chicago, IL (1987)

Interior design by Shimizu America Corporation, Hirsch/Bedner & Associates, architecture by HOK

Scanned from the October 1988 issue of Contract Interiors Magazine

[jareckiworld]

Tadanori Yokoo — Fuji Tarzan (screen print on paper, 1997)

[noosphe-re]

[newestcool]

Yohji Yamamoto f/w 2008 rtw Creative Director Yohji Yamamoto Newest Cool on Instagram

[nuveau-deco]

Crane and Tortoise Box. Japanese origin, dated 1894; medium is silver with gold and lacquer; dimensions: 10.5 cm high. From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, accession number: M18e44.a-b

"This crane and tortoise box was designed and produced to be given to guests at the imperial banquet for the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of the Meiji Emperor and Empress in 1894. Often referred to by the French term “bonbonnière,” the box is decorated with a crane and two tortoises (minogame), historic motifs that convey messages of auspiciousness and longevity across East Asia. …"

(Source: gardnermuseum.org)

[chasedbybuildings]

Sanyo Sytem Midi 50 CD. Japan, 1985.

[miamaimania]

Folds of Future: Issey Miyake's Avant-Garde Fashion through Irving Penn's Lens

[nobrashfestivity]

Kiyoshi Awazu. Cover image for Taschen books, The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today

[vintage-tigre]

1980s Limited Edition Honda Timepiece

[lovefrenchisbetter]