Retail Directory 2010

Koichiro Kimura

Tokyo

Looking more like a set from a Lady Gaga video than a shop, Koichiro Kimura's new Tokyo HQ is as much about experiencing his sensational furniture and tableware designs in a futuristic setting as it is about buying them. Kimura, a former punk turned designer and lacquerware master, has transformed a two–storey 1950s house in upscale Aoyama into a white palace fronted by a large gold pyramid. With a hot pink back wall providing the only splash of colour, the ground–floor shop is filled with products ranging from tableware to a sculptural gold USB stick. Upstairs, the walls and ceilings of the showroom are covered with 4,000 white lacquered pyramids, a signature shape of the designer. The scion of a famous Sendai family that has been in the lacquerware business for more than 400 years, Kimura seamlessly combines ancestral techniques with his unique contemporary take on the art.

5–3–12 Jingumae
Shibuya–ku
81.3 6427 4877

www.love-international.jp

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